Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure

2011-04-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Joseph S. Myers wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 02:40:45PM CEST: > OK to commit this patch to remove this code? OK. Thanks, Ralf > 2011-04-01 Joseph Myers > > * configure.ac: Remove code setting CONFIG_SHELL, config_shell and > moveifchange. > * configure: Regenerate. >

Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure

2011-04-01 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 03/24/2011 08:49 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > Related to that point, I notice a piece of code starting "we might need to > > use some other shell than /bin/sh for running subshells" that tries to > > determine a shell on Windows hosts. It's autocon

Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure

2011-03-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 03/24/2011 08:49 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Related to that point, I notice a piece of code starting "we might need to use some other shell than /bin/sh for running subshells" that tries to determine a shell on Windows hosts. It's autoconf's job to find a suitable shell, so if this code is st

Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure

2011-03-24 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > Furthermore, the whole idea of the toplevel configure tentative_cc > setting code is dubious since this is an autoconf-generated script and > it's autoconf's job to deal with finding a working compiler, putting > it in ANSI C mode, etc. - so if someone

Re: Remove old host cases from toplevel configure

2011-03-24 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 03/24/2011 03:11 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Furthermore, the whole idea of the toplevel configure tentative_cc setting code is dubious since this is an autoconf-generated script and it's autoconf's job to deal with finding a working compiler, putting it in ANSI C mode, etc. - so if someone did

Remove old host cases from toplevel configure

2011-03-24 Thread Joseph S. Myers
This patch removes cases for a range of old hosts from the toplevel configure.ac, as I think those cases are no longer useful. All the removed code comes from Cygnus configure before the toplevel configure was converted to be an autoconf-generated script. In general those hosts, if ever supported