On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 07/08/2013 07:33 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >> I strongly disagree. We (GCC) are at fault here. We implicitly >> enable a feature at configure time without knowing its builds >> will succeed (despite having repeated reports that it does often >> fail) without much input from the builder (who might be ignorant of >> real reason of failures.) > > That's better than silently disable multilib builds so that the > user doesn't know until the build is complete.
I don't think this is what is being proposed. > It's better to abort early. it is, as the saying goes, drowning the baby because we want to keep the water. -- Gaby > > Andrew. >
