Re: [v3] make check-abi

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:36:52PM -0500, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> Shall we tweak the configure fragments as required so that if
> config/abi/CPU-VENDOR-OSX.Y/baseline_symbols.txt is not found then
> (at least) config/abi/CPU-VENDOR-OSX/baseline_symbols.txt and then (maybe)
> config/abi/CPU-VENDOR-OS/baseline_symbols.txt are candidates for use.
> 
> gcc 3.2 on CPU-unknown-freebsd4 has one C++ ABI and gcc 3.2 on
> CPU-unknown-freebsd5 may have another (although it may coincidentally
> be identical).  By default, the target triples constructed by
> config.guess on FreeBSD, Solaris and elsewhere add the OS version
> number.

I would advocate having the baseline_symbols file be stored in a variable.
The variable is guessed as a default, and then configure.target can override
it, e.g., in the very bottom clause testing for both cpu and os.

Then we export the variable to the Makefiles.


What do you think?


Phil

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