Richard,
[Talking about an immediate removal of the netware target...]
> "Jan Beulich" <jbeul...@novell.com> writes:
>
>>>>> Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> 07/13/11 4:34 PM >>>
>>>which variant would you prefer: obsoletion now and removal in 4.8 or
>>>immediate removal?
>>
>> Both are fine with me, so unless someone else objects immediate removal
>> would seem better given it had been pretty much unmaintained.
>
> Right: it would be a one-time offort to remove the support, but
> subsequent cleanups wouldn't have to deal with the effectively dead
> code.
>
> I had a quick look and it doesn't seem hard: apart from removing the
> netware-specific files in gcc and libgcc (and corresponding gcc/config.gcc
> and libgcc/config.host changes), there's only a small list (apart from
> netware-related target triplets in the testsuite):
>
> config/elf.m4
> configure.ac
> contrib/config-list.mk
> gcc/config/i386/i386.c
> gcc/config/i386/i386.h
> gcc/doc/extend.texi
> libstdc++-v3/crossconfig.m4
>
> configure.ac may have to stay if binutils/src wants to retain the
> report, but that's about it.
>
> Let's see what the release managers/global reviewers think.
what's your take on this?
Thanks
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
