Proposal: obsolete target hppa*-hp-hpux10.*

Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
Sun Jan 11 15:25:00 GMT 2004


> ac> Can I guess that you're, at least in part, working on 11.11 because it 
> ac> is a stable PA RISC based platform and offers a path for getting 
> ac> GNU/Linux PA out of limbo?
> 
> Stand back, I'm gonna vent ...
> 
> Well, no.
> 
> My original motivation was that there's a lot of code in the test suite
> which is HP-specific.  gdb.cp/local.exp has all these cases for HP
> compilers and I can't touch them.  Now I can touch them.  funcargs.exp
> had twenty-three instances of "if { $hp_cc_compiler } { setup_xfail
> hppa*-hp-hpux* }".  funcargs.exp now has zero instances of
> "$hp_cc_compiler".

Can I also vent? :-)

All that HP/UX specific xfail stuff should be deleted unconditionally. 
It's all wrong.  It's another HP merge bogon.  Time to again threaten to 
remove the lot? :-)

Andrew




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