From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7425 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2011 16:39:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 7275 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Mar 2011 16:39:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yx0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-yx0-f169.google.com) (209.85.213.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:39:31 +0000 Received: by yxt33 with SMTP id 33so97464yxt.0 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.91.213.13 with SMTP id p13mr4318904agq.60.1300984770317; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yakj.usersys.redhat.com (93-34-210-217.ip51.fastwebnet.it [93.34.210.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b28sm74796anb.48.2011.03.24.09.39.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8B73BD.6090604@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:53:00 -0000 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joseph S. Myers" 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 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg01078.txt.bz2 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