Re: A patch for configure

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 04:38:19PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> I want you to explain why this problem justifies your putting a hard
> error into the binutils configury that prevents me from building a
> cross-toolchain without installing it.  Putting in a difficult to
> remember configure option makes it a tiny bit better, but only a very
> tiny bit.
> 

How about this one? I should have put in in the first place. If your
machine doesn't support cut and paste, I can make the option shorter.

We have quite a few problems with the ia64 toolchain because very
people build the cross compiler with a different C library. My patch
may be annoying to you. But it helps people who doesn't use newlib.
Can you live with adding a new option to your configure script?
I really appreciate it.

Thanks.


H.J.
--- /home/is/sourceware/src/configure	Fri May 19 11:14:18 2000
+++ ./configure	Fri May 19 16:57:56 2000
@@ -772,7 +772,8 @@ if test x${target} != x${build} && test 
     	echo 1>&2
 	echo "	${prefix}/lib/gcc-lib/${target_alias}/${gcc_version}" 1>&2
     	echo 1>&2
-    	echo "first for successful cross-compilation." 1>&2
+    	echo "first for successful cross-compilation. You can disable this sanity" 1>&2
+    	echo "check with --disable-target-dir-sanity-checking." 1>&2
 	exit 1
     fi
 fi