Need current information for (old) --with-cpu flag in configure.in.

Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com
Thu Feb 22 11:49:00 GMT 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:02 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:57:05PM -0600, Anmol Paralkar-B07584 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >  (I am working on gdb-6.6). In rs6000-tdep.c, we have the comment:
> >  (Above the line: static struct variant variants[] =)
> > 
> >  /* ...
> > 
> >    If you add entries to this table, please be sure to allow the new
> >    value as an argument to the --with-cpu flag, in configure.in.  */
> > 
> >  However, the "--with-cpu" flag is missing in gdb-6.6/configure.in.
> > 
> >  Please could you let me know the change intended here to any of the
> >  configure scripts when adding a new cpu?
> 
> To be honest, I have no idea what that comment is referring to.
> --with-cpu only affects GCC, not GDB.

Could be configure.tgt, but seems unlikely.
The comment dates back to before the present repository
was created in 1999.  It could conceivably have been cut/pasted
from gcc.



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