Re: On the toplevel configure and build system

DJ Delorie
2011-03-29T22:28:34Z

> 2. If you put directories from the GCC repository into your build, you
> should expect GCC and its libraries to be built; toplevel should not
> disable GCC on the grounds that GCC does not support a given target.

I disagree. We have a single combined gcc+binutils+etc internal tree
that's used for many targets; some support gcc, some do not. I added
another "don't build gcc for this" just last week.

> If in future the src repository is split up into separate repositories for
> different projects, this principle will apply in a more fine-grained way -

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