new build scheme naming

new build scheme naming

[Nathanael Nerode]

This message refers to
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg01816.html
and it may also be useful to look at
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg01842.html

I'd like to start working on the transition sometime soon, but I want to
settle a couple of naming issues first.

* Name for the directory.  'build' is a terrible name (confusion with
the 'build machine') and 'install' isn't much better.  I would promote a
name with the host encoded into it for clear separation of tools which
run on the host from those which run on the target.  How about
${host_alias}/recently_built
${host_alias}-recently_built
${host_alias}/built
${host_alias}-built
${host_alias}/tools
${host_alias}-tools
${host_alias}/preinstall
${host_alias}-preinstall

(and similarly, ${target_alias}/* for target libraries)

Any preferences?  Any better ideas?...

* Variable to use for this directory in 'configure' files and Makefiles;
again, $build_prefix is a very bad choice.
$host_recently_built
$host_built
$host_tools
$host_preinstall_dir

(and similarly $target_* for target libraries)

Any preferences?  Any better ideas?...

--Nathanael

Re: new build scheme naming

[mike stump]

> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 18:05:45 -0400
> From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@doctormoo.dyndns.org>

> ${host_alias}/recently_built
> ${host_alias}-recently_built
> ${host_alias}/built
> ${host_alias}-built
> ${host_alias}/tools
> ${host_alias}-tools
> ${host_alias}/preinstall
> ${host_alias}-preinstall

> Any preferences?  Any better ideas?...

I think if you asked 100 people that didn't know what it meant and
asked them to explain to you what it meant, that the answer with the
most correct guesses would be preinstall.  Did you follow that?