Re: MPE Port (was HARD_REGNO_MODE_OK)

[Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>]

  In message <4.1.19990829152111.00c4f4c0@garfield.dis.com>you write:
  > At 04:08 AM 8/29/99 -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > 
  > >So let's start with just your new config files and configure.in fragment
  > >first.  Can you send just those pieces?
  > 
  > Yes. Before I do so, I have one small problem to resolve. Maybe you could
  > provide a suggestion or "better way" to approach it.
  > 
  > libio/gen-params tries to determine if __printf_fp() exists by simply
  > compiling a small test program. That is not sufficient on MPE because
  > MPE does late binding. (I run into this with all configure scripts and
  > in discussions with Ben, it was decided that my best approach is to
  > have a customized autoconf and build my own configure scripts before
  > building). That doesn't work here since gen-params is a hard coded
  > script. I don't want to modify it because I'll no doubt break it
  > for all other platforms.
This is the kind of issue I'd punt for now.  Use some kind of hack in your
local tree and we can try to deal with it after we've dealt with the easy
stuff.

jeff