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To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,        binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org, newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: On the toplevel configure and build system
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:41:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <201103292228.p2TMSAPB006048@greed.delorie.com> (DJ Delorie's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:28:10 -0400")
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dj wrote:

>> [...]
> I see no reason to stop people from building in a combined source tree
> for multiple targets, and expecting it to work.

Perhaps if we do move to git for all the /src stuff, we can have a
/toplevel git repository with different branches suitable for each of
your tastes of such policy.

- FChE