[m-rev.] for review: remove junk from command lines

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> For review by anyone.
>
> I can't really test the effect of this change on the nightly tests, which
> use a different setup from bootcheck. It is likely that they will need some
> minor tweaks, which I won't have time to do next week.
>
I suggest not committing this to the release branch (if you were
intending to do so).  I don't mind about builds of main branch being
interrupted by problems requiring minor tweaks though.

>
> Remove most of the junk from the command lines executed by make when building
> the compiler and by bootcheck when building test cases. We do this by moving
> the junk into files consulted via the --flags option.
>
> After this change, it is actually possible to see in a glance not just which
> files are being compiled but also with which options. The size of the output
> (measured in bytes) from a bootcheck is now only about 40% of what is was
> before.
>
That looks fine (although Ian or myself may need to tweak some things
for the OS X/Darwin port).

Julien.
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