From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dj@redhat.com, neroden@gcc.gnu.org,
aoliva@redhat.com, Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
Subject: Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8B73BD.6090604@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1103241407380.19191@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On 03/24/2011 03:11 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Furthermore, the whole idea of the toplevel configure tentative_cc
> setting code is dubious since this is an autoconf-generated script and
> it's autoconf's job to deal with finding a working compiler, putting
> it in ANSI C mode, etc. - so if someone did wish to resupport one of
> these hosts (and in the unlikely event that building current tools
> using the old system compiler is at all possible) it would be better
> to put system-specific pieces in autoconf and make toolchain configure
> code work using features not host triplet tests as far as possible.
100% agreed, I've meant to clean this up for a long time.
> OK to commit?
Yes, thank you very much.
Paolo
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2011-03-24 15:30 Joseph S. Myers
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