Re: On the toplevel configure and build system

Joseph S. Myers
2011-03-29T23:45:16Z

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> > Specifically, I propose removal of all support for building: ash autoconf
> > automake bash byacc bzip2 diff dosutils fileutils findutils find gawk
> > gettext gnuserv gzip hello indent libiconv libtool make mmalloc patch perl
> > prms rcs release recode sed send-pr shellutils tar textutils time uudecode
> > wdiff zip expect guile target-gperf target-examples target-qthreads. See
> > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01674.html> and followups
> > regarding reasons to keep a few packages in my original list that aren't
> > in the list above.
>
> The expect program is used by dejagnu, and I believe it will be used
> when running tests if both dejagnu and expect are in the source tree.
> At least, it used to work that way. Everything else looks OK to me.

I included expect in the list on the basis of what Paolo said in
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01709.html> and
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01726.html>.

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Joseph S. Myers
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