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Re: [PATCH] Disable building with i386-*, -march=i386 or -mcpu=i386.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:02:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable building with i386-*, -march=i386 or -mcpu=i386.
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On 04/08/2013 07:23 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 09/04/13 09:11, Roland McGrath wrote:
>>> That's true, and I'm willing to make it hard error if that's what
>>> people think we should actually do.
>>
>> It's my preference, but I don't insist on it.
>>
>
> I am also in favour of the hard error - in line with every other
> building issue found during configure.
I concede, I'll make this to a hard error.
>>> Even if you disagree that downstream should not be a reason, what
>>> about budding developers that want to get started hacking GNU and
>>> for some reason or another their system target triplet is i386-*
>>> and everything breaks. I'd rather just commute that to i686-* and
>>> have them happy little hackers :-)
>
> An error on configure is not exactly a high bar to get passed compared
> to anything they are going to hit next...
Very very true.
Cheers,
Carlos.