On Jun 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> We might also set cross_compiling=maybe if --host is specified but
>> --build isn't, and then use the original cross_compiling test to
>> decide.
> But the old cross compile test did not work on systems where
> rld did not know how to find a lib the compiler linked to.
Yup. But people with such broken compilers often wouldn't specify
--host anyway. That's why I suggest that the presence of --host
should be used as an indication that cross compilation *may* be
underway.
> How about another option?
This wouldn't solve Cygnus' problem.
> Why don't we just skip a 2.5 release and call it 3.0?
This would be a reasonable step. But I still think we should have
some buffer time for such a major change.
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