Re: On the toplevel configure and build system

Tom Tromey
2011-03-30T13:37:13Z

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

Joseph> Additional tools for the build (not host) system may be built
Joseph> (not installed) when present in the source tree, if of direct
Joseph> use in building and testing the components in those
Joseph> repositories, and likewise additional libraries used by build or
Joseph> host tools or target libraries in those repositories may also be
Joseph> built. But support for tools and libraries that do not meet
Joseph> that criterion should be considered obsolete and removed.

Joseph> Specifically, I propose removal of all support for building:
Joseph> ... libiconv ...

libiconv is used by some people building gdb, to work around limitations
in the host platform's iconv.

Tom