--nfp configure option still alive?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Lior,

> powerpc-linux (IBM PowerPC 405 Embedded Core with no FPU). I used to
> build gcc with --with-float=soft and --with-cpu=405 and everthing is
> ok, but I'm not sure about passing a --nfp to the configure script of
> binutils, and I just read in this script "--nfp is obsolete; use
> --without-fp".
> 
> I'm confused now.

Right, the answer is "no the --nfp switch is not used by binutils for 
the PowerPC target (any CPU)".  In fact looking at the GCC configure 
files as well, it appears that this switch is not used there either.

The reason for the "--nfp is obsolete" comment being present in the 
configure files is that it is added there automatically when then 
configure file is generated from the configure.in file.  The autoconf 
program probably does not need to insert this comment any more (or the 
lines that handle --nfp) but it is safest to leave them in case someone 
has a very old configure command line lying around somewhere.

Cheers
   Nick