From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25676 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2011 00:07:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 25668 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2011 00:07:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:06:57 +0000 Received: from kpbe12.cbf.corp.google.com (kpbe12.cbf.corp.google.com [172.25.105.76]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p2TNXCJf005868 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:33:12 -0700 Received: from gwaa18 (gwaa18.prod.google.com [10.200.27.18]) by kpbe12.cbf.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p2TNWlPq016673 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:33:06 -0700 Received: by gwaa18 with SMTP id a18so357679gwa.5 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:33:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.47.9 with SMTP id z9mr759249ybj.306.1301441585826; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coign.google.com (dhcp-172-19-10-158.mtv.corp.google.com [172.19.10.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q33sm1295449yba.13.2011.03.29.16.33.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:33:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Lance Taylor To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org, newlib@sourceware.org Subject: Re: On the toplevel configure and build system References: Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:07:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Joseph S. Myers's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:52:16 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true 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/msg00190.txt.bz2 "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. Ian