Why is libiberty built for the target?

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:20:35PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
> >> And Cygwin was also mentioned.  But why build it if neither of these
> >> things is true?
> >
> > Why build libstdc++?  Why build newlib?  Why build libvaja?
> >
> > Because the end user might want to use it, that's why.
> 
> If it's not being installed I don't think the end user is using it.

*WARNING*  Chicken-And-Egg Loop Detected  *WARNING*

I added --enable-install-libiberty /because/ I (as an end user) wanted to
use it but couldn't.

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