# of unexpected failures 768 ?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 31 October 2011 15:33, Rainer Orth wrote:
> As an asside, I'd suggest to considerably reduce your set of configure
> options: many of them are the default (like --without-gnu-ld
> --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld, --enable-nls, --enable-threads=posix,
> --enable-shared, --enable-multilib, --host=i386-pc-solaris2.8
> --build=i386-pc-solaris2.8) or unnecessary
> (--enable-stage1-languages=c).

Yes, adding completely redundant options looks like cargo cult
programming and just confuses anyone using the compiler who tries to
work out how it was configured.

> I'm uncertain if Solaris 8/x86 still supports bare i386 machines, so it
> might be better to keep the default of pentiumpro instead.

Solaris 8 won't run on anything less than pentium, I recently
convinced someone else to stop building GCC for i386 on Solaris:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-10/msg00005.html