[patch] minor toplevel configure.in simplification
Doug Evans
dje@transmeta.com
Thu Jul 11 13:51:00 GMT 2002
DJ Delorie writes:
>
> > Thus methinks there's no such thing as "always use newlib"
>
> I think the confusion arises because of cygwin - you can't build
> cygwin's runtime without also building newlib, so it overrides the
> --with-newlib setting.
Ah. So --with-newlib essentially doesn't exist for this particular target.
Also, clarification.
Nathanael Nerode writes:
> I want to do more cleanup on the stuff related to deciding what to do with
> newlib, but I have to figure out what the correct behavior of '--without-newlib'
> on 'always use newlib' targets is. I'm thinking it should mean 'use installed
> newlib, not the one in the tree', but I'd love it if someone else could
> confirm that that's reasonable behavior.
If 'use installed newlib' were reworded to 'use installed libc'
[which may be newlib but may not be] then I think the suggestion is reasonable.
[fwiw of course]
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