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Re: Serious Solaris problem (effects egcs-1.2)
- To: davem at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Serious Solaris problem (effects egcs-1.2)
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:02:48 -0600
- cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199904270557.WAA09921@piglet.twiddle.net>you write:
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 23:43:17 -0600
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@upchuck.cygnus.com>
>
> We could try and restrict autoconf to searching the directories
> that gcc will search. That would probably make this kind of stuff
> a lot more robust.
>
> Other thoughts?
>
> The first question, and an issue I've never been %100 clear on, should
> we be preferring to use gas by default in any event on such a system?
I'm not sure either.
My first thought would be no, since gcc isn't going to find gas in this
kind of situation.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to test for features using an assembler that the
compiler isn't going to use.
jeff