Re: configure patches for FreeBSD to support >1 architecture

[Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19990519193622.A65077@nuxi.com>you write:
  > It is not totally useless AND we have no choice.  As I mentioned before
  > it is the *only* spelling understood by our a.out linker.
I must have missed that.  Terribly sorry.  Can you send that patch as a
singleton so that I can go ahead and install it?  Thanks.

  > What is wrong with a FreeBSD-specific change that affect NOBODY other
  > than FreeBSD?  It is exactly this same stance that made the BSD's
  > maintain their own toolchains while they were a.out.  One big reason
  > FreeBSD switched to ELF is because we were tired of maintain our own
  > toolchain.
The changes need to be long term maintainable by anyone working on egcs.  That
means trying to do things in a consistent manner with other ports when
possible.  It means conforming to gnu coding standards.  It means writing
good clean changes.  It means not trading one set of problems for a new set
of problems.

If you write clean changes, we will install them.  If you write bad changes,
we will not, even if they only effect FreeBSD.  The same holds true for every
port, front-end, backend, optimizers, etc.

jeff