basic-improvements merge status

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:

| > 
| > 
| > --On Tuesday, December 17, 2002 09:46:35 AM +0100 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> 
| > wrote:
| > 
| > >OK, I will create updated patch with TARGET_C99_FUNCTIONS macro and set
| > >it via linux.h file.  Does this sound sane?
| > 
| > It sounds OK to me, but it sounds like some people (for example, Gaby)
| > think we can do better via autoconf.  It we can do it with autoconf,
| > that's better, I guess.
| What I don't like about autoconf is that we can't do that completely
| reliably - we can't do that when cross compiling or when there are
| multiple possible runtime, like in mingw.

When cross-compiling, it is to be expected that the person doing the
build will provide the list of assumed missing functions.  It is no
different from the usual constraints when cross-compiling.

-- Gaby