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Re: [PATCH] Disable building with i386-*, -march=i386 or -mcpu=i386.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable building with i386-*, -march=i386 or -mcpu=i386.
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> That's true, and I'm willing to make it hard error if that's what
> people think we should actually do.
It's my preference, but I don't insist on it.
> Even if you disagree that downstream should not be a reason, what
> about budding developers that want to get started hacking GNU and
> for some reason or another their system target triplet is i386-*
> and everything breaks. I'd rather just commute that to i686-* and
> have them happy little hackers :-)
>
> The BZ's we have fixed with this issue are all about novice developers
> needing help or a configure error to tell them to do the right thing.
A hard configure error should certainly tell them the right thing to do.
Thanks,
Roland