Re: excessive dependency: libIDL calling gcc!

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Chris Waters wrote:
> By default, libIDL seems to call "gcc -E" to do preprocessing of the
> IDL files -- at least, on a system where it can.  This introduces a
> run-time dependency on gcc for anything using libIDL, i.e. the perl
> and python bindings for ORBit.

	You're right of course - I am hoping that my ORBit2 work will
remove the need for parsing of IDL files by script bindings, and thus not
only accelerate them, but remove this ugliness permanantly.

	Regards,

		Michael. 

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