On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > "Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: > > > Specifically, I propose removal of all support for building: ash autoconf > > automake bash byacc bzip2 diff dosutils fileutils findutils find gawk > > gettext gnuserv gzip hello indent libiconv libtool make mmalloc patch perl > > prms rcs release recode sed send-pr shellutils tar textutils time uudecode > > wdiff zip expect guile target-gperf target-examples target-qthreads. See > > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01674.html> and followups > > regarding reasons to keep a few packages in my original list that aren't > > in the list above. > > The expect program is used by dejagnu, and I believe it will be used > when running tests if both dejagnu and expect are in the source tree. > At least, it used to work that way. Everything else looks OK to me.
I included expect in the list on the basis of what Paolo said in <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01709.html> and <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01726.html>. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com