On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 09:55:04AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > I believe because we want > cd obj/gcc > make f951 > work even when --enable-languages=c,c++ , it is quite handy > not having to reconfigure gcc because you forgot one language, especially > when you have lots of cross-compilers around. > If LANG_MAKEFRAGS would be limited only to the chosen languages, > this would suddenly not work at all.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-01/msg02100.html is the change that went into 4.2. Jakub