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Re: [PATCH] Disable building with i386-*, -march=i386 or -mcpu=i386.
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, "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: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:23:25 +1000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable building with i386-*, -march=i386 or -mcpu=i386.
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On 09/04/13 09:11, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> 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.
>
I am also in favour of the hard error - in line with every other
building issue found during configure.
>> 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 :-)
An error on configure is not exactly a high bar to get passed compared
to anything they are going to hit next...
Allan