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Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: bonzini at gnu dot org, dj at redhat dot com, neroden at gcc dot gnu dot org, aoliva at redhat dot com, Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:49:26 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1103241407380.19191@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Furthermore, the whole idea of the toplevel configure tentative_cc
> setting code is dubious since this is an autoconf-generated script and
> it's autoconf's job to deal with finding a working compiler, putting
> it in ANSI C mode, etc. - so if someone did wish to resupport one of
Related to that point, I notice a piece of code starting "we might need to
use some other shell than /bin/sh for running subshells" that tries to
determine a shell on Windows hosts. It's autoconf's job to find a
suitable shell, so if this code is still relevant I think there's
something missing in autoconf.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com