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Re: PR 42485 Delete both -b and -V options
- From: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
- To: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Cc: Gcc Patch List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:10:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: PR 42485 Delete both -b and -V options
- References: <6c33472e1002230244o4893d28ene0808fa87c09cc96@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1002231155480.4650@zhemvz.fhfr.qr>
On 23 February 2010 12:00, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
>
>> Bootstrapped and regression tested (it seems nothing was testing these
>> options) on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.
>>
>> OK?
>
> This is ok if nobody has serious objections and at the same time
> is willing to either fix these options for 4.5 or at least show
> that they do work when special care is taken at configure and
> install time and is willing to document those restrictions.
>
> Please wait 48h to give people a chance and wait until an
> eventual discussion dies down.
Actually, I haven't tested that -b does not work. I don't have any
cross-compiler or want to build one. Could any one test that?
I see that several Debian packages use (or have used) -b but perhaps
those are fixed already.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318750
Cheers,
Manuel.