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Re: [PATCH - ping] Don't unlink /dev/null on darwin
Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch> writes:
>> Hopefully, libgcc will be split out to its own directory in the 4.1
>> cycle, and will grow its own configure.ac. The check can then go in
>> there and will not need to use -o /dev/null. If you're interested in
>> helping with this, talk to Paolo Bonzini (cc:ed).
>
> Ouch! :-) I don't think I have enough familiarity with multilibs and
> the like to split libgcc into its own toplevel directory... It is not
> like libcpp and fixincludes, surely. Not to mention modifications to
> the GCC driver that are probably needed for that.
I guess I was just blithely assuming that this would be your next
project after toplevel bootstrap got finished and turned on
permanently. There are other things that it would aid, not just this.
> My plans for configury work in 4.1 mostly involved the creation of a
> common aclocal library in the toplevel's config directory, also to
> remove the hack whereby fixincludes just uses gcc's aclocal.m4 file.
Would be nice, but I don't see it as nearly as important.
zw