Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-03-01 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, DJ Delorie wrote: > > But I've previously noted that target libiberty seems completely useless; > > It's a target library, like newlib, libz, libstdc++, or anything else. > How do you know there are no target applications that want to link > against it? GCC target libraries

Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-03-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> Is it still used outside the "Cygnus tree"? How should I know? I don't know what users of free software do with it... It's a target library. Anyone writing code for any target might use it.

Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-03-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 03/01/2010 09:48 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: But I've previously noted that target libiberty seems completely useless; It's a target library, like newlib, libz, libstdc++, or anything else. How do you know there are no target applications that want to link against it? Is it still used outside th

Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-03-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> But I've previously noted that target libiberty seems completely useless; It's a target library, like newlib, libz, libstdc++, or anything else. How do you know there are no target applications that want to link against it?

Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-02-28 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Jack Howarth wrote: > Somehow the recursive make is broken for libiberty and is silently using > the system compiler. > Jack I believe this is PR29404. IIRC, in addition to libiberty, other recursive "make check"s fail too due to using the system (stage1) compil

Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-02-28 Thread Jack Howarth
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:31:52AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jack Howarth writes: > > >While looking at PR42308 and trying to understand why the make check > > is leaky and starts to call the system compiler instead of the xgcc during > > a make check on either x86_64-apple-darwin9 or i6

Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-02-28 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jack Howarth writes: > > >While looking at PR42308 and trying to understand why the make check > > is leaky and starts to call the system compiler instead of the xgcc during > > a make check on either x86_64-apple-darwin9 or i686-apple-darwin10, I

Re: why multiple libiberty directories

2010-02-28 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jack Howarth writes: >While looking at PR42308 and trying to understand why the make check > is leaky and starts to call the system compiler instead of the xgcc during > a make check on either x86_64-apple-darwin9 or i686-apple-darwin10, I noticed > that we seem to build libiberty both at the

why multiple libiberty directories

2010-02-28 Thread Jack Howarth
While looking at PR42308 and trying to understand why the make check is leaky and starts to call the system compiler instead of the xgcc during a make check on either x86_64-apple-darwin9 or i686-apple-darwin10, I noticed that we seem to build libiberty both at the toplevel and within the multil