autoconf is the wrong tool to use

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:58:51PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
> If those are painful to maintain (which they're not really)
> then some other scheme could be found to make that maintenance
> stress easier.

They are *extremely* painful to maintain.  That's how we ended
up with the situation that we have.

It works perfectly well for the native case, which is BY FAR the
most common, and where we see the most variance in system toolchain
features.  For the cross-compile case, we can afford to say thou
shalt use gas, or fend for yourself.


r~