From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10768 invoked by alias); 19 May 2003 23:27:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 10739 invoked from network); 19 May 2003 23:27:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piper.synopsys.com) (204.176.21.196) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 May 2003 23:27:19 -0000 Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h4JNQB308176; Mon, 19 May 2003 16:26:11 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 23:42:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: DJ Delorie Cc: bkorb@veritas.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Variation on an Alternate policy for obsoleting targets Message-ID: <20030519162611.A8061@synopsys.com> References: <3EC7B977.16D969C@veritas.com> <200305191828.h4JISaX17641@greed.delorie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200305191828.h4JISaX17641@greed.delorie.com>; from dj@redhat.com on Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:28:36PM -0400 X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01818.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:28:36PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Not all native targets support maintainer mode. Not all native > targets even support testing. For example, I recently built 3.3 on a very old Alpha OSF/1 box. As the "expect" program fails to build on that system, I can't submit tests, but the compiler appears to work. (I'm sure that the problem with "expect" is fixable, but it's not worth the bother for me personally; I just noticed that our porting center had this box around and tried it to see if it would work).