From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16667 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2014 22:52:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 16651 invoked by uid 89); 20 Nov 2014 22:52:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:52:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Mike Frysinger CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: wrap EABI check with a cache var In-Reply-To: <1416521821-31271-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <1416468692-4317-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <1416521821-31271-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00571.txt.bz2 On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Mike Frysinger wrote: > This way people can force the test one way or the other. It also matches > the style in other configure flags where tests are wrapper in cache vars. OK, though I don't think overriding the results of tests in order to configure with a wrong-target compiler (or no compiler) is sensible. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com