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Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:40:45PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> Ideally, the src/include/filesystem.h from "over there" should be made
> common to gcc, and use that.
Sounds like a good idea to me. You meant include/filenames.h, right?
> Cygwin tries real hard to hide dos-isms, not sure if it would be OK
> to have both path separators.
The point of using ; as I understand it is that : is for indicating
drive letters. Unless Cygwin hides drive letters entirely, will :
really work as a path separator?
> > Well, arguably the irix5 and VAX VMS configurations should be
> > scrapped.
>
> Why? I've still got an irix5 machine myself...
I am trying to push a general principle that we should actively prune
obsolete configurations rather than leave the code around to rot
slowly and confuse people trying to do maintenance. I picked on irix5
because it's got an xm-host header whose sole purpose is to correct a
decision autoconf gets wrong; in principle autoconf should be fixed,
but if no one uses the system anymore, we'd be better off dropping the
host configuration.
If irix5 isn't obsolete (as is demonstrated by your still using it),
then fixing the configure script might be worth it.
zw