On 12/6/2016 4:34 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Dez 06 2016, Ben Elliston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> >>>>> So what's the replacement? >>>> >>>> Using system tools to discover the ABI. >>> >>> ??? That's what I did. >> >> Sorry, I meant "standard system tools" that can reasonably be expected >> to be installed. Many systems do not have a C compiler installed. > > How can you build software without a compiler??? >
He didn't say they didn't have a compiler, he said "do not have a *C* compiler". The purpose of config.guess and config.sub is to identify a default system and give an identifiable triplet string. A compiler shouldn't need to be used to do that. >> They can, however, be expected to have the GNU coreutils. > > That is useless. How? -- Earnie _______________________________________________ config-patches mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/config-patches
