RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:00:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:41:10AM -0600, E. Weddington wrote:
> >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....
> 
> The source code is pretty clear.  Have you looked at it?
> 
> I'm sure Richard will correct me if I'm wrong but this is just a way
> to store standard GCC environment variables in the registry.

I think that's right.  I also think that it's pretty much obsolete;
while it may still serve some purpose, the automatic relocation and
sysroot code pretty much obsoletes it.  We can't arbitrarily move a
sysroot or target-triplet directory around at install time, and using
registry keys for that might be nice, but most things should work
automatically.

At least for Cygwin - since they do for other Unix-like hosts, and
there's no host magic wizardry in it that I recall.  It should even
support DJGPP style paths.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer