libgcj/120: libffi configure script doesn't honour "--with-as"

[Tom Tromey]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/120; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com,
        Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: libgcj/120: libffi configure script doesn't honour "--with-as"
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:15:19 -0800 (PST)

 Bryce> Would it be practical to change libffi to call the assembler
 Bryce> directly (like other parts of libgcj presumably do) rather than
 Bryce> via gcc? This would probibly be more robust than mapping
 Bryce> --with-as to -B.
 
 Right now we have assembly code that is compiled in boehm-gc and
 libffi, and that's it.  (gmp has assembly code, but I don't know its
 status.)
 
 Both these places use the gcc driver.
 
 Would it be possible to change libffi to work with either assembler?
 
 Tom