From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9208 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2011 23:45:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 9073 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Mar 2011 23:45:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:45:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 28513 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2011 23:45:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digraph.polyomino.org.uk) (joseph@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 29 Mar 2011 23:45:06 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4iav-0002FE-7p; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:45:05 +0000 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:45:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Ian Lance Taylor cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org, newlib@sourceware.org Subject: Re: On the toplevel configure and build system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00186.txt.bz2 On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > "Joseph S. Myers" 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 > > 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 and . -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com