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Re: [committed] Convert zlib to autoconf 2.5x
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
| On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 06:17:48AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
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|>+sinclude(../config/no-executables.m4)
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|>+# Make sure we don't test executables when making cross-tools.
|>+GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES
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|
| This is not necessary:
|
| (A) We're using autoconf 2.59 now; no-executables.m4 could be removed
| and we could use AC_NO_EXECUTABLES again.
|
| (B) This is for the case where we can not link target applications.
| By the time we're building most target libraries we are assumed to have
| a target C library. The exceptions are libstdc++ and libiberty,
| because they are both needed by winsup, so we can't build the C library
| for cygwin without being able to configure both libstdc++ and
| libiberty first. Anything that depends on $(ALL_GCC_C) should not need
| to configure without a C library.
|
| [Besides, we'll build fastjar right after zlib. If we couldn't link
| executables in zlib's configure tests, then we won't be able to link
| fastjar either.]
OK, I'll look into removing these from libobjc and zlib. Or, better
yet, someone who can routinely build functional cross-compilers could
try removing them. ;-)
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