Top Level Autoconfiscation Status

[Doug Evans]

Andrew Cagney writes:
 > >  >I believe that both BFD and READLINE (in src) are currently broken in 
 > >  >this regard (DJE reported problems).  There was a somewhat underwelming 
 > >  >response (see binutils) when it was suggested that developers should be 
 > >  >responsible for ensuring that this obscure functionality continues to work.

Obscure?!  Underwhelming?!

Has there been some email I missed?  [I was on vacation for awhile.]

I only found two problems.  The readline one seemed trivially
fixable.  Haven't put much thought into the other one
(top level configure specifying full path for --with-gcc-version-trigger
or some such, not bfd).

If this feature is removed (by the fact that bugs when found won't
be fixed) that'd be a great shame!