From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: --enable-targets= Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:29:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3B520689.1000300@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00173.html On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > I'm getting ready to commit a patch (raw draft attached) that makes it > possible to build a GDB that contains several orthogonal target > architectures. Not sure what happens when you use it yet :-) > > Anyway, I'm trying to take a softly softly approach. The attatched > configury tweek tries to do the right thing (multi-arch when possible) > and warn the user when something isn't possible. The alternative would > be to simply fail. Thoughts? I have only one thought: is it really a good idea to make this change a few days before you cut the release branch (if I take the tentative schedule seriously)? I'm afraid of the possibility that some configurations that aren't tested too frequently might become broken by this change, and that the responsible maintainers will not become aware of that until it's too late.