Hi Jan, > On Friday 2024-05-10 15:59, Rainer Orth wrote: >>Stuff Received <st...@riddermarkfarm.ca> writes: >> >>> On 2024-05-10 07:44, Rainer Orth wrote (in part): >>> >>>> Besides, if John had ever tried to build either GCC 13 or 14 on Solaris >>>> 11.3, gcc/configure would have told him about the obsoletion in no >>>> uncertain terms. >>> >>> No, the option --enable-obsolete has allowed me to build on my T2000 >>> running Solaris 11.3 until recently. (I just built GCC 14.1.0 on said >>> machine.) >> >>of course, but with default options you get a message indicating the >>obsoletion: >> >> echo "*** Configuration ${target}${target_min} is obsolete." >&2 >> echo "*** Specify --enable-obsolete to build it anyway." >&2 >> echo "*** Support will be REMOVED in the next major release of GCC," >&2 >> echo "*** unless a maintainer comes forward." >&2 >> >>So nobody can say they didn't know about the obsoletion. > > I can. With my distro hat on, I can tell you that, when rpmbuild/dpkg-build* > completes with exit status 0, there certainly is much reduced incentive to go > looking at the build log.
but without --enable-obsolete (which is off by default), the build will abort with exit 1 on an obsolete target. This simply cannot be overlooked. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University