Re: [tree-ssa] configuring g77 appears broken

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Steve Kargl wrote:

> % cvs -qz9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc update \
> -PAd -r tree-ssa-20020619-branch gcc
> % cd obj
> % ../gcc/configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc-ssa/work --enable-languages=c,f95,f77 \
> --with-gmp=/usr/local
> %gmake
> (much spewing deleted)
> checking linker read-only and read-write section mixing... read-write
> checking linker PT_GNU_EH_FRAME support... yes
> checking linker position independent executable support... no
> configure: error: 
> The following requested languages were not found: f77
> The following languages were available: c c++ f95 java objc
> gmake: *** [configure-gcc] Error 1
>
> Is this intentional?  I can't find a Changelog entry
> noting that g77 was removed from tree-ssa.

Yes, Richard Henderson removed it:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2003-10/msg01057.html

I haven't seen him give a reason for this, but it might be that followon 
patches broke g77 completely, because it isn't ready for the new 
tree-ssa infrastructure.

We discussed that before; see:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-10/msg00072.html

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