Andrew Haley wrote: > David Walluck writes: > > Also, I thought aot-compile was a good script, but it was done > > away with. Wouldn't it make sense to bring this back and have a > > script that didn't rely on rpm, and then have rpm call this script > > instead? This way, not only other RPM-based distros, but possibly > > Debian or Ubuntu could even pick it up. > > aot-compile-rpm doesn't rely on RPM at all -- it's just REALLY badly > named! :-) Not strictly true. It does have RPM-specific bits, but they're very very small: 10 lines out of 436. I spoke to some of the Debian and Ubuntu guys at DevJam about abstracting it but that's difficult to do whilst it's alternatives-managed. Of course, doing this would make rpm a particularly bad home for it. The obvious place is in gcc itself (and aot-compile-rpm itself could either go there or in rpm) but that would mean being tied to gcc's necessarily slow release cycle. Maybe the solution is having aot-compile-* in its own package. It seems overkill though... Cheers, Gary
