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Re: [toplevel patch] delete references to tix
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:20, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2003, Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com> wrote:
>
> > It only occures if, at some future stage, a binutils or gcc
> > containing this change is made before GDB.
>
> Right.
>
> > Besides, such edge conditions should be covered by the CrossGCC FAQ
> > (has that really not been changed in >3 years?).
>
> It moved to a Wiki base, IIRC.
>
> Anyway, I don't see the point of removing support for building
> packages from the tree. I can still legitimately want to build Tix
> along with Tcl, Tk and Itcl. IMHO, the fact that the tools in src no
> longer use Tix doesn't imply, to me, that the infrastructure to build
> Tix should no longer be there. It costs very little (or nothing) to
> keep it working.
Just so we're clear on this, you can only build tix with old releases of
the tools, along with old tcl/tk, etc. Tix hasn't been buildable out of
CVS for months and has been removed for that reason and because it was
no longer used.
Martin