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Re: [Patch] ld config bits for i860 coff target
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> How quickly people forget :-(
>
> The developer tools came to use specific generated versions of those
> files because people encountered host dependant problems with the
> generators. Guarenteed that the generated files being run, were
> identical across all fronts.
I didn't forget. If we re-encounter such problems then we can go back
to having blessed tarballs. Your "idealistic" goal is a lot more
realistic than you seem to think; the autotools have matured a great
deal.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer