Oh, ok, perhaps I was confused by the note in automake 1.13.1's NEWS file (iirc), which said
Support for IRIX and the SGI C/C++ compilers will be removed in Automake 1.14: they have seen their last release in 2006, and SGI is expected to retire support from them in December 2013 Did that not happen? On Fri, Jun 14, 2024, 6:00 AM Bob Friesenhahn < graphicsmagick.proj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Does automake have a policy on when to stop supporting a CPU, operating > > system, or compiler? > > Automake does not have specific support for anything so this concept is > utterly alien to it. > > Libtool does have specific support for certain targets/tools, and > Automake may optionally make use of it. > > Unlike something like CMake, Automake just keeps on working using well > established patterns. > > It is possible that something might stop working on a 30 year old > system, but this would not be noticed unless there is a bug report. > > Bob > > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt > > >
