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Re: PATCH: Fix libstdc++ testsuite on systems without ranlib
- From: Rainer Orth <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- To: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:40:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix libstdc++ testsuite on systems without ranlib
- References: <yddhbpydvj4.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <4B69CB52.4070407@oracle.com>
Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini@oracle.com> writes:
> Bah... if the other maintainers want this, certainly I'm not going to
> prevent it from going in, but frankly taking care now, for the first
> time, of the needs of irix5.3 seems to me a bit ridiculous. Or you have
> evidence that other modern targets are affected?
Not yet, but irrespective of the needs of IRIX 5, there is a bug here:
the libstdc++ testsuite expects to find AR and RANLIB in the
environment, only falling back to hardcoded values if they are missing,
and they are not passed. This is obviously wrong.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University