Re: Link tests after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES

[Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>]

Bernd Schmidt wrote:

> I've now checked in the libstdc++-v3 patch, which is a reasonably 
> obvious bug fix.  I've never had an opinion on whether other targets 
> ought to fail link tests, hence I'm not really interested in pursuing 
> the other part of the patch.  I'll leave that to you or Mark, if you wish.

I think the libstdc++-v3 change is indeed pretty obvious.

I still think that reverting Rask's patch is the right thing to do.  I 
think the fundamental assumption that you can use the simulator target 
as way to probe the target is just wrong for bare-metal systems; what's 
available in simulation and might what might be available otherwise need 
not be the same.  We're making assumptions about the target system when 
the only reliable way to do that is to have the person configuring the 
compiler tell us.  I think that we sometimes try too hard to make 
configury smart; essentially, we're preferring wrong answers to making 
the user do some work.

But, I also don't have a compelling reason to push forward on that 
myself at this point.

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