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Re: On the toplevel configure and build system
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org, newlib at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:36:52 -0600
- Subject: Re: On the toplevel configure and build system
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1103292059260.2595@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
Joseph> Additional tools for the build (not host) system may be built
Joseph> (not installed) when present in the source tree, if of direct
Joseph> use in building and testing the components in those
Joseph> repositories, and likewise additional libraries used by build or
Joseph> host tools or target libraries in those repositories may also be
Joseph> built. But support for tools and libraries that do not meet
Joseph> that criterion should be considered obsolete and removed.
Joseph> Specifically, I propose removal of all support for building:
Joseph> ... libiconv ...
libiconv is used by some people building gdb, to work around limitations
in the host platform's iconv.
Tom