From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7611 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2004 02:29:00 -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 7603 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2004 02:29:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Sep 2004 02:29:00 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CBlG1-0000ZP-K0; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:28:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Joel Brobecker , Eli Zaretskii , 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: <20040927022853.GA2105@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Joel Brobecker , Eli Zaretskii , 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> <20040923175721.GA30999@nevyn.them.org> <4154372C.7080100@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4154372C.7080100@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00441.txt.bz2 On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:03:08AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >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. > > You'll need to be more specific. Which build, which host. Presumably > these are all modern hosts and support "rb". My point was not for "rb" in particular - you're quite right - but just correcting Joel's statement about the existance of --build/--host users. If we had some need to autoconf for this and just default it to "rb", that would be in practice OK (though autoconf tests with cross-build defaults are EVIL INCARNATE). -- Daniel Jacobowitz