RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?

[E. Weddington]

On 8 Apr 2004 at 11:27, Richard Kenner wrote:

>     So are you saying you don't actually know what it does? and you still
>     want to rip it out? .....
> 
> No, I'm saying I know exactly what it does. 

Good. Can you enlighten me, then? That was my original question....

Does --enable-win32-registry only affect when GCC is installed, i.e. after it's 
built? 

Or does it affect every time that GCC is executed, i.e. does GCC look for the 
registry key to find the location of the components to execute?

In reading <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html>, it's not very clear on 
this.

Also, since you mentioned that it installs other keys, do you happen to know 
what other keys?

> The question is whether doing
> that thing is actually useful in a Windows and Windows installer environment.
> I've been out of touch of that environment for a few years, so I no longer
> consider myself qualified to make a decision.

I regularly build a toolchain for the AVR hosted on Windows and I use a Windows 
installer (<http://winavr.sourceforge.net/>). So this may or may not be 
relevant to me.

Eric