Re: PR 42485 Delete both -b and -V options

[Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>]

On 23.02.2010 12:10, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 23 February 2010 12:00, Richard Guenther<rguenther@suse.de>  wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> >
> > > Bootstrapped and regression tested (it seems nothing was testing these
> > > options) on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.
> > >
> > > OK?
> >
> > This is ok if nobody has serious objections and at the same time
> > is willing to either fix these options for 4.5 or at least show
> > that they do work when special care is taken at configure and
> > install time and is willing to document those restrictions.
> >
> > Please wait 48h to give people a chance and wait until an
> > eventual discussion dies down.
>
> Actually, I haven't tested that -b does not work. I don't have any
> cross-compiler or want to build one. Could any one test that?
>
> I see that several Debian packages use (or have used) -b  but perhaps
> those are fixed already.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318750

the given example uses this upstream, not just in the package. I didn't see many 
uses of this. However distributions tend to patch around this.

As a plus, removing -V could allow for not-changing paths in an installation 
across subminor releases.

  Matthias