Re: [Patch] ld config bits for i860 coff target

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:00:28PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Note also that any GCC developer's opinions need to be heavily, if not 
> totally discounted when it comes to GDB.  Its GDB, and not GCC that will 
> get to sort out GDB's mess.
> 
> I'd like to see hard evidence that the proposal works before considering 
> an implementation.

I don't see how you could get any evidence without trying the
implementation.  Feel free to do so, in a week or so when I get around
to redoing the conversion for GDB.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer