Re: [patch/rfc] Use i686-pc-linux-gnu as the releng target

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

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Hello,

> Hello,
> 
> GDB, and I suspect binutils, and just possibly newlib (true?), as part of the release process does:
>     ./configure sun4
> (it is so that the .info et.al. files can be generated).  The problem is that GDB no longer configures for the good old sun4.
> 
> This patch changes the system being used from "sun4" to "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
> 
> For binutils, can the release engineer give this a wirl.
> 
> For newlib, is this logic still used?  Can that part of the file be removed?
> 
> Once we've sorted things here I'll see about pushing this upstream into GCC repository (gcc doesn't use this file).
> 
> Andrew 

In light of all the positive feedback, I've committed the attached - the 
only difference is that it removes the newlib.tar.gz target.

Andrew

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2004-01-15  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@redhat.com>

	* src-release: Update copyright year.
	(do-proto-toplev): Configure using i686-pc-linux-gnu.
	(NEWLIB_SUPPORT_DIRS): Delete macro.
	(newlib.tar.bz2): Delete rule.

Index: src-release
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/src-release,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 src-release
--- src-release	14 Sep 2003 23:16:45 -0000	1.8
+++ src-release	15 Jan 2004 23:16:39 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #   Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
-#   1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation
+#   1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation
 #
 # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
 	<Makefile.in >tmp
 	mv -f tmp Makefile.in
 	#
-	./configure sun4
+	./configure i686-pc-linux-gnu
 	$(MAKE) configure-host configure-target \
 	    ALL_GCC="" ALL_GCC_C="" ALL_GCC_CXX="" \
 	    CC_FOR_TARGET="$(CC)" CXX_FOR_TARGET="$(CXX)"
@@ -328,25 +328,6 @@
 	$(MAKE) -f $(SELF) gdb-tar TOOL=gdb PACKAGE="insight+dejagnu" \
 		MD5PROG="$(MD5PROG)" \
 		SUPPORT_FILES="$(INSIGHTD_SUPPORT_DIRS)"
-
-.PHONY: newlib.tar.bz2
-NEWLIB_SUPPORT_DIRS=libgloss
-# taz configures for the sun4 target which won't configure newlib.
-# We need newlib configured so that the .info files are made.
-# Unfortunately, it is not enough to just configure newlib separately:
-# taz will build the .info files but since SUBDIRS won't contain newlib,
-# distclean won't be run (leaving Makefile, config.status, and the tmp files
-# used in building the .info files, eg: *.def, *.ref).
-# The problem isn't solvable however without a lot of extra work because
-# target libraries are built in subdir $(target_alias) which gets nuked during
-# the make distclean.  For now punt on the issue of shipping newlib info files
-# with newlib net releases and wait for a day when some native target (sun4?)
-# supports newlib (if only minimally).
-newlib.tar.bz2: $(DIST_SUPPORT) $(NEWLIB_SUPPORT_DIRS) newlib
-	$(MAKE) -f $(SELF) taz TOOL=newlib \
-		MD5PROG="$(MD5PROG)" \
-		SUPPORT_FILES="$(NEWLIB_SUPPORT_DIRS)" \
-		DEVO_SUPPORT="$(DEVO_SUPPORT) COPYING.NEWLIB" newlib
 
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