Re: [PATCH] PR target/48904 x86_64-knetbsd-gnu missing defs

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 04/30/2015 01:58 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30 April 2015 at 07:00, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 04/29/2015 02:01 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > > 2012-09-21  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
> > >
> > >          PR target/48904
> > >          * config.gcc (x86_64-*-knetbsd*-gnu): Add i386/knetbsd-gnu64.h.
> > >          * config/i386/knetbsd-gnu64.h: New file
> >
> > OK.  Please install on the trunk.
>
> hmz, according to https://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/ the debian
> knetbsd port is abandoned since about 2002.
> If this is true (please confirm) then we should probably remove knetbsd from
> - upstream config repo
> - GCC
> - binutils-gdb
>
> instead of the above patchlet.
> This would work equally well for me WRT config-list.mk builds..
> [I should have checked this earlier, sorry..]
Given what Guillem indicated, I'd support removal.

It's often the case that we mark it as deprecated and issue an explicit 
error if someone tries to build the port.  That seems wise here.

jeff