On 03/24/2011 03:11 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
Furthermore, the whole idea of the toplevel configure tentative_cc setting code is dubious since this is an autoconf-generated script and it's autoconf's job to deal with finding a working compiler, putting it in ANSI C mode, etc. - so if someone did wish to resupport one of these hosts (and in the unlikely event that building current tools using the old system compiler is at all possible) it would be better to put system-specific pieces in autoconf and make toolchain configure code work using features not host triplet tests as far as possible.
100% agreed, I've meant to clean this up for a long time.
OK to commit?
Yes, thank you very much. Paolo
