From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2516 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2004 17:57:39 -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 2509 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2004 17:57:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Sep 2004 17:57:38 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CAXqL-0008Bx-LZ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:57:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Michael Chastain , me@cgf.cx, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Suggested ways to remove the need for xm-go32.h Message-ID: <20040923175721.GA30999@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Brobecker , Michael Chastain , me@cgf.cx, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <01c49d82$Blat.v2.2.2$23875ec0@zahav.net.il> <20040923050534.GA11936@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <41526D73.nailWK21NVX4@mindspring.com> <20040923151802.GC968@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040923151802.GC968@gnat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00377.txt.bz2 On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:18:02AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > I don't think that "rb" versus "r" can be autoconf'ed. The gdb > > configure script would need to execute a host program to figure out > > whether "rb" is supported or not, and that won't work if build != host. > > Or maybe I'm wrong about that and there's some way to do it. > > I must say I am not convinced that it is such a good idea to support > that setup. I wouldn't bother about this until somebody has a real > interest in that support, and then can step up and maintain it. > In the meantime, we're just letting the best be the enemy of good, and > as a consequence have to find elaborate solutions to problems made more > complex by this requirement. Intellectually rewarding, but slows down > development. For the previous question of testing, I don't think it's a worthwhile requirement; however, it's a very important requirement for build time. I build with --build != --host routinely. So do a lot of Cygwin folks, I think. -- Daniel Jacobowitz