[patch/rfc] Use i686-pc-linux-gnu as the releng target

[Andrew Cagney]

Hello,

> Hello,
> 
> GDB, and I suspect binutils, and just possibly newlib (true?), as part of the release process does:
>     ./configure sun4
> (it is so that the .info et.al. files can be generated).  The problem is that GDB no longer configures for the good old sun4.
> 
> This patch changes the system being used from "sun4" to "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
> 
> For binutils, can the release engineer give this a wirl.
> 
> For newlib, is this logic still used?  Can that part of the file be removed?
> 
> Once we've sorted things here I'll see about pushing this upstream into GCC repository (gcc doesn't use this file).
> 
> Andrew 

In light of all the positive feedback, I've committed the attached - the 
only difference is that it removes the newlib.tar.gz target.

Andrew
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