[PATCH] Depreciate darwin[0-7]

[Jack Howarth]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 03:38:37PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >  The attached patch depreciates darwin7 and earlier. These darwin releases
> > only support stabs and haven't been properly maintained in quite some
> > time.
> 
> ?  Last time I ran darwin7 it worked just fine and it wasn't that long ago.  I don't believe it works any worse today does it?  In fact, last time I ran darwin6 it worked just fine as I recall.
> 
> > Okay for gcc trunk after adding any required documentation changes to the patch?
> 
> I don't think darwin1 - darwin5 are worth saving anymore, and don't care if they go, so that part of the patch would be fine.  darwin6 worked, last I knew and doesn't pose much a burden.  Likewise I don't think keeping support for 7 in the tree is burdensome, indeed the size of the below patch is rather small.  If someone accidentally breaks support for 6 or 7, it usually is trivial to get it to work again.  So, for example, the recent patches to rip out -lm, those should be inside a target os conditional of 10.4 or later.  If that were missing, should be trivial to add it.  I just don't see the value in removing what amounts to a single line to support darwin7.
> 
> Thoughts?

Mike,
    According to...

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42825

darwin7 may be currently broken. I'll repost my add-on remove-outfile patch
with a conditional on 10.4 or later shortly.
          Jack