Re: #define HAVE_GNU_AS/LD

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

 In message <orzovl4ms4.fsf@garnize.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>you write:
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  > 
  > This is a repost of a patch that I have posted before, but always
  > together with other unrelated patches, and always under inappropriate
  > subjects.  This will allow us to unify various of the config files and
  > make explicit the differences between the GNU and the native tools by
  > enclosing them in #if/#else/#endif, instead of forcing someone to
  > compare separate files that aren't always updated together, or to
  > #include one file in another, which breaks Makefile dependencies.
  > 
  > Is this ok to install?
This seems somewhat backwards.  I'd expect us to not be having code that is
compile-time checking for HAVE_GNU_AS/HAVE_GNU_LD in the long term.  That
kind of stuff should be runtime switch selectable.

In fact, we already have ports that work in this manner.

jeff