These compilers are only meant to run on IRIX, and that system has seen its last release in 2006, and is expected to lose support from SGI in December 2013: <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html>
This change fixes automake bug#12967 and bug#12978. * lib/depcomp (sgi): Remove this depmode. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ lib/depcomp | 35 ----------------------------------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2d63043..8ac6612 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ New in 1.14: 'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS' has proved to be a bad idea anyway -- see automake bug#9037. +* Removed support for obsolete platforms: + + - Support for the SGI C/C++ compilers has been removed: these compilers + are only meant to run on IRIX, and that system has seen its last + release in 2006, and is expected to lose support from SGI in December + 2013; see <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html> + for more information. + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New in 1.13: diff --git a/lib/depcomp b/lib/depcomp index 3f02f5d..ab7cc70 100755 --- a/lib/depcomp +++ b/lib/depcomp @@ -251,41 +251,6 @@ hp) exit 1 ;; -sgi) - if test "$libtool" = yes; then - "$@" "-Wp,-MDupdate,$tmpdepfile" - else - "$@" -MDupdate "$tmpdepfile" - fi - stat=$? - if test $stat -ne 0; then - rm -f "$tmpdepfile" - exit $stat - fi - rm -f "$depfile" - - if test -f "$tmpdepfile"; then # yes, the sourcefile depend on other files - echo "$object : \\" > "$depfile" - # Clip off the initial element (the dependent). Don't try to be - # clever and replace this with sed code, as IRIX sed won't handle - # lines with more than a fixed number of characters (4096 in - # IRIX 6.2 sed, 8192 in IRIX 6.5). We also remove comment lines; - # the IRIX cc adds comments like '#:fec' to the end of the - # dependency line. - tr ' ' "$nl" < "$tmpdepfile" \ - | sed -e 's/^.*\.o://' -e 's/#.*$//' -e '/^$/ d' \ - | tr "$nl" ' ' >> "$depfile" - echo >> "$depfile" - # The second pass generates a dummy entry for each header file. - tr ' ' "$nl" < "$tmpdepfile" \ - | sed -e 's/^.*\.o://' -e 's/#.*$//' -e '/^$/ d' -e 's/$/:/' \ - >> "$depfile" - else - make_dummy_depfile - fi - rm -f "$tmpdepfile" - ;; - xlc) # This case exists only to let depend.m4 do its work. It works by # looking at the text of this script. This case will never be run, -- 1.8.0.1.409.g252f922