GCC 4.2.0 Status Report (2007-05-11)

[Joe Buck]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:42:22AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> wrote:
> > I don't even think this qualifies as a bug.  It's basically an
> > enhancement request, to have a clean way of supporting glibc in
> > an unusual place.
> 
> It works in previous versions going back to 2.95.3, so I'd think it
> would be a bug, and a regression.  But since this is such a rare
> circumstance, I wouldn't expect it to be a release-blocker.  I brought
> it up only in the hope that it might be transparent to someone and
> fixed before the release, but I certainly understand if it isn't.

I disagree; you had a procedure to hand-edit the Makefile, and something
changed so your procedure no longer works.  But this was never a
documented, supported way of doing things; nothing that involves
hand-editing could be.  Maybe there could be something like
--with-libc=/some/path that would automatically generate the correct
Makefiles; that would be an enhancement.