From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7695 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2003 15:21:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7682 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 15:21:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 2003 15:21:00 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.20 #1 (Debian)) id 19ngNv-00082z-SD; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:20:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:21:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Nick Clifton , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Patch] ld config bits for i860 coff target Message-ID: <20030815152059.GA30887@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Nick Clifton , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20030806014541.GY27145@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <20030806025553.GA14245@nevyn.them.org> <20030806040345.GB27145@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <20030814045151.GA28747@nevyn.them.org> <20030814052535.GU27145@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <3F3CF512.70001@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F3CF512.70001@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00161.txt.bz2 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