Package: gcc-snapshot Version: 20030301-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
Below is a small patch to README.snapshot to give a sample wrapper script for gcc-snapshot. I recently made one but forgot the " " around my $@ and was stumped as to why gcc would not parse it's command line correctly. As I imagine this is a pretty common thing to do with this package, a correct sample might save someone some time that I wasted -i *** /home/delsarto/README.snapshot.diff --- README.snapshot.old 2003-03-08 11:18:03.000000000 +1100 +++ README.snapshot 2003-03-08 11:20:45.000000000 +1100 @@ -15,5 +15,18 @@ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin:$PATH +You might also like to use a shell script to wrap up this +funcationality, e.g. + +place in /usr/local/bin/gcc-snapshot and chmod +x it + +#!/bin/bash +LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH +PATH=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin:$PATH +gcc "$@" + +Don't forget the quotes around the $@ or gcc will not parse it's +command line correctly! + Unset these variables before building Debian packages destined for an upload to ftp-master.debian.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux ellington 2.4.20-686 #1 Mon Jan 13 22:22:30 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages gcc-snapshot depends on: ii binutils 2.13.90.0.18-1.1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii libc6 2.3.1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xlibs 4.2.1-6 X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-10 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information