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Re: [PATCH 1/3] config-list.mk: add KNOWN_BROKEN
- From: Trevor Saunders <tbsaunde at tbsaunde dot org>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:27:32 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] config-list.mk: add KNOWN_BROKEN
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 04:25:32PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Jeff Law wrote:
>
> > On 05/26/2016 09:04 AM, David Malcolm wrote:
> > > When using config-list.mk to build all configurations, it's useful
> > > to filter out the configurations that are known to be broken.
> > >
> > > This patch does so, adding a KNOWN_BROKEN variable.
> > >
> > > contrib/ChangeLog:
> > > * config-list.mk (LIST): Rename to...
> > > (FULL_LIST): ...this.
> > > (KNOWN_BROKEN): New variable.
> > > (LIST): Redefine, in terms of FULL_LIST and KNOWN_BROKEN.
> > I'd rather fix, deprecate and/or remove these kinds of targets.
> >
> > Given that interix has been broken for a long time, I'll approve a patch that
> > removes it.
>
> The rule was meant to be that a target is deprecated in one release, then
> removed in the next - the error message given without --enable-obsolete
> says so. So all the targets that require --enable-obsolete in GCC 6
> should be removed for GCC 7 in the absence of interest in reviving them.
yeah, I have patches to do that (including interix which was obsoleted),
but moving and a hard drive failure got in the way of sending them.
I'll try and get those out shortly.
Trev