[Linux-ha-dev] tools/ccdv

[David Lee]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> On 2008-02-29T15:39:07, David Lee <t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > > But if you can pretty it up and --enable-pretty still works, sure.
> > No, I don't particularly want to get sidetracked into its insides.  I was
> > simply wondering why, from the configure/make perspective, it seems to be
> > a "special case".
>
> I _think_ this was related to the fact that it overrides the CC
> variable; we need to have ccdv ready before we can compile anything, but
> we obviously can't compile ccdv with ccdv already in the CC setting.

Thanks, Lars.

What is 'ccdv' anyway? Could you jot down a brief "executive summary" of
what it does?  Is it a compiler?  A "lint"-like thing?  Etc.

At the very least, this discussion and the uncertainty around it,
demonstrates that it a high quality comment is needed in the code
(Makefile.am)...

Best wishes.  Have a good weekend.


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