From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] ld config bits for i860 coff target
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030815152059.GA30887@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F3CF512.70001@redhat.com>
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> How quickly people forget :-(
>
> The developer tools came to use specific generated versions of those
> files because people encountered host dependant problems with the
> generators. Guarenteed that the generated files being run, were
> identical across all fronts.
I didn't forget. If we re-encounter such problems then we can go back
to having blessed tarballs. Your "idealistic" goal is a lot more
realistic than you seem to think; the autotools have matured a great
deal.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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