On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 09:27 +1000, Ben Elliston wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:16 +0200, Danny Backx wrote: > > > Gcov normally puts the files where it writes profiling information in > > the source directory. In a cross-development environment, that directory > > isn't always available. > > So I discovered when debugging testsuite failures on a remote target :-) > > > Gcc has support for overriding that directory at runtime. > > Unfortunately, on Windows CE, that is not always easy. > > Why, is there no concept of environment variables for Windows CE > processes? What is the real problem?
For all I know there's just the registry.
> > I've patched my copy of gcc to be able to specify a different directory
> > at compile-time (instead of at run time).
> >
> > I can cleanup and submit my patch if there's interest.
> >
> > Prior to that, I have a question : should this support be steered via
> > parameters on the compiler command line, or from environment values ?
>
> Don't use environment variables at compile time. It makes reproducing
> problems in the field extremely difficult. We need useers to be able to
> send source input plus a command line without having to further guess
> their environment.
Ok, a command line option is what I have. I'll try to clean up my patch
shortly, and see if it still applies cleanly in a recent gcc tree. Our
current version is based on gcc-4.1.0. Or is a patch against that ok ?
Danny
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