Re: [toplevel patch] delete references to tix

["Martin M. Hunt" <hunt@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:20, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2003, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > It only occures if, at some future stage, a binutils or gcc
> > containing this change is made before GDB.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > Besides, such edge conditions should be covered by the CrossGCC FAQ
> > (has that really not been changed in >3 years?).
> 
> It moved to a Wiki base, IIRC.
> 
> Anyway, I don't see the point of removing support for building
> packages from the tree.  I can still legitimately want to build Tix
> along with Tcl, Tk and Itcl.  IMHO, the fact that the tools in src no
> longer use Tix doesn't imply, to me, that the infrastructure to build
> Tix should no longer be there.  It costs very little (or nothing) to
> keep it working. 

Just so we're clear on this, you can only build tix with old releases of
the tools, along with old tcl/tk, etc.  Tix hasn't been buildable out of
CVS for months and has been removed for that reason and because it was
no longer used.

Martin