From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9192 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2003 12:22:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9172 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2003 12:22:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 26 Jan 2003 12:22:49 -0000 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id h0QCMlm08016; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:22:47 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:22:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: Nathanael Nerode , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: (toplevel patch) Use canonical names for target_subdir, build_subdir. Message-ID: <20030126122246.GA7985@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20030124034053.GA22615@doctormoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00723.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:50:21PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jan 24, 2003, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Use the canonical build and target names for build_subdir and target_subdir. > > Not ok. athlon-linux-gnu is canonicalized to i686-linux-gnu, so we > can't use the same directories for both of them. (Consider building a > compiler on athlon that must run on i686, or on the other way round). So, is this going to be reverted or not? It's destroying the testsuite results. Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002