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Re: Death to configure.frag


On Aug 29, 2003, "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Hm, so is there anything stopping us from cutting over to
> AC_PREREQ(2.57) now?

I don't know of any, and I wouldn't mind such a switch for the GCC
sub-directory by itself, if we're doing it for the libraries soon.
But I wouldn't mind the patch going in as-is (except for the include
/dev/null -> ifneq thing).

> I think this will wind up being less weird and confusing, especially
> if we can get bootstrap moved to the top level and gcc/configure
> re-run between stages, so that all the 'override this stuff in stage
> 2 and beyond' mess will go away.

Wheee :-)

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