Remove old host cases from toplevel configure
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Thu Mar 24 16:39:00 GMT 2011
On 03/24/2011 03:11 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Furthermore, the whole idea of the toplevel configure tentative_cc
> setting code is dubious since this is an autoconf-generated script and
> it's autoconf's job to deal with finding a working compiler, putting
> it in ANSI C mode, etc. - so if someone did wish to resupport one of
> these hosts (and in the unlikely event that building current tools
> using the old system compiler is at all possible) it would be better
> to put system-specific pieces in autoconf and make toolchain configure
> code work using features not host triplet tests as far as possible.
100% agreed, I've meant to clean this up for a long time.
> OK to commit?
Yes, thank you very much.
Paolo
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