On 23 February 2010 12:00, Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > >> Bootstrapped and regression tested (it seems nothing was testing these >> options) on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. >> >> OK? > > This is ok if nobody has serious objections and at the same time > is willing to either fix these options for 4.5 or at least show > that they do work when special care is taken at configure and > install time and is willing to document those restrictions. > > Please wait 48h to give people a chance and wait until an > eventual discussion dies down.
Actually, I haven't tested that -b does not work. I don't have any cross-compiler or want to build one. Could any one test that? I see that several Debian packages use (or have used) -b but perhaps those are fixed already. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318750 Cheers, Manuel.