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Re: On the toplevel configure and build system
- From: DJ Delorie <dj 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: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:28:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: On the toplevel configure and build system
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1103292059260.2595@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
> 2. If you put directories from the GCC repository into your build, you
> should expect GCC and its libraries to be built; toplevel should not
> disable GCC on the grounds that GCC does not support a given target.
I disagree. We have a single combined gcc+binutils+etc internal tree
that's used for many targets; some support gcc, some do not. I added
another "don't build gcc for this" just last week.
> If in future the src repository is split up into separate repositories for
> different projects, this principle will apply in a more fine-grained way -
I see no reason to stop people from building in a combined source tree
for multiple targets, and expecting it to work.