Iain Sandoe <idsan...@googlemail.com> writes:
> Hi Gaius,
>
>> On 22 Feb 2024, at 18:06, Gaius Mulley <gaiusm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Iain Sandoe <idsan...@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Right now, AFAIK the only target runtimes used by host tools are
>>> libstdc++, libgcc and libgnat. I agree that might change with rust -
>>> since the rust folks are talking about using one of the runtimes in
>>> the FE, I am not aware of other language FEs requiring their targte
>>> runtimes to be available to the host tools (adding Gaius in case I
>>> missed something with m2 - which is quite complex inthe
>>> bootstrapping).
>
>> the m2 infrastructure translates and builds gcc/m2/gm2-libs along with
>> gcc/m2/gm2-compiler and uses these objects for cc1gm2, pge, mc etc -
>> rather than the library archives generated from /libgm2
>
> If I understand this (and my builds of the m2 stuff) correctly, this is done
> locally to the builds of the host-side components; in particular not
> controlled
> by the top level Makefile.{tpl,def}?
Hi Iain,
yes indeed,
> (so that we do not see builds of libgm2 in stage1/2-<target> but only in the
> stage3-target builds?
>
> in which case, this should be outside the scope of the patch here.
regards,
Gaius
