[patch/rfc] Use i686-pc-linux-gnu as the releng target

[J. Johnston]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:01:33AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>GDB, and I suspect binutils, and just possibly newlib (true?), as part 
>>of the release process does:
>>	./configure sun4
>>(it is so that the .info et.al. files can be generated).  The problem is 
>>that GDB no longer configures for the good old sun4.
>>
>>This patch changes the system being used from "sun4" to "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
>>
>>For binutils, can the release engineer give this a wirl.
> 
> 
> Works fine.
> 
> 
>>For newlib, is this logic still used?  Can that part of the file be removed?
>>

We don't use it for generating our snapshot releases.  If you are building 
newlib on a native system, you have to specify --with-newlib in the 
configuration, otherwise, it normally doesn't get built.


>>Once we've sorted things here I'll see about pushing this upstream into 
>>GCC repository (gcc doesn't use this file).
> 
> 
> The GCC repository doesn't contain it, either.
>