RE: egcs-1.0.1 configuration bugs

[John Hughes <john at AtlanTech dot COM>]

Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> Writes:

>  In message <01BD27F6.3A254100@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>you write:
>  > 1. In egcs-1.0.1/configure.in I see:
>  >   mips*-*-* | alpha*-*-osf* | i[3456]86*-*-sysv4* | i[3456]86*-*-unixware*)
>  >     with_stabs=yes;
>  > but the SVR4 and UnixWare "as" can't digest .stabs

> Someone how knows something about those systems will need to respond; I don't
> know enough about them myself.

Well, I can tell you that "as" doesn't know a .stab from a .punch.  The debugging
format on SVR4 and children is ELF/DWARF

>  > 2. there also seems to be a bug in egcs-1.0.1/gcc/configure:
>  > This seems to set "stabs" to "yes" if "--with-stabs=no" is given (the
>  > "withval" variable is ignored).

> I suspect you're supposed to use --with-stabs or --without-stabs -- ie they
> are not supposed to have a yes/no flag attached with them.

You may suspect that, but egcs-1.0.1/gcc/configure doesn't, from earlier in the
script:

  -without-* | --without-*)
    ac_package=`echo $ac_option|sed -e 's/-*without-//'`
    # Reject names that are not valid shell variable names.
    if test -n "`echo $ac_package| sed 's/[-a-zA-Z0-9_]//g'`"; then
      { echo "configure: error: $ac_package: invalid package name" 1>&2; exit 1;
 }
    fi
    ac_package=`echo $ac_package| sed 's/-/_/g'`
    eval "with_${ac_package}=no" ;;

So there is NO difference between "--with-xyzzy=no" and "--without-xyzzy"

And neither of them work.

(Appologies for any pre-coffee growling).

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