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Re: bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>
- To: david parsons <orc at pell dot portland dot or dot us>
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:42:41 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: bootstrap/2236: config.if (gcc 2.95.2, possibly others) pukes
> > I don't know whether gcc is supposed to support these _very very_ old
> > systems any more, so I am unsure about how to proceed with this report.
>
> libc 4.8 is still being actively developed (the last changeset in my
> master repository dates from Oct 28,2002), so I'm not sure how that
> counts as _very very_ old. It's certainly as new as gl*bc and the
> various embedded libc's for Linux are.
Sorry, I did not know that it was still developed. I was under the
impression that it was superceded first by libc5, then by glibc2.
> And, in any case, for the case of at least the C programming
> language, it shouldn't matter; configure should treat Linux without
> GNU as just another operating system without requiring the C runtime
> library to have a __GLIBC_MINOR__ #define.
>
> Thank you for the suggestion to submit the patch to gcc-patches
> (gcc-patches@gnu.org?) I will do that today.
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
^^^
Regards
Wolfgang
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