On Mon, Sep 19, 2005, Steve Weinreich wrote:
>
...
>Yes you are right. The issue is that configure thinks we are crosscompiling
>under amd64-linux and bails out therefore but do not understand the reason
>for this.
>
>>2. I'm very unhappy that this hack for this single platform
>> is such intrusive to our GCC package. A patch of nearly 200KB and
>> for a generated file like "configure". Rather CVS intrusive and hard
>> to maintain. It is possible to reduce it in size? Or even better:
>> to replace it with a single "%{l_shtool} subst"? For instance the
>> patch seems to remove always the same piece of code. We could so
>> something like "s/test x.gcc_no_link = xyes/false/g" and this way
>> already reduce the patch to the first hunk (which is different).
>
>I have tried 3 other patches before which failed all later in the build
>process. In the gentoo build for gcc 3.4.3.20050110-r2 the Configure.ac is
>modified and a autoreconf called afterwards which also doesn't work for me.
>The first working patch was the patch which i have checked in which is
>indeed huge and ugly, but it worked in the first place.
I haven't looked closely at the gcc source tree in quite a while,
however if it uses the standard gnu autoconf, automake, etc., you
might solve the problems by running aclocal, then autoconf to
rebuild the configure file.
Bill
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