Re: [PATCH] PR target/48904 x86_64-knetbsd-gnu missing defs
Hi!
On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 09:58:28 +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On 30 April 2015 at 07:00, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 04/29/2015 02:01 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> >>
> >> 2012-09-21 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
> >>
> >> PR target/48904
> >> * config.gcc (x86_64-*-knetbsd*-gnu): Add i386/knetbsd-gnu64.h.
> >> * config/i386/knetbsd-gnu64.h: New file
> >
> > OK. Please install on the trunk.
>
> hmz, according to https://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/ the debian
> knetbsd port is abandoned since about 2002.
Actually that page refers to the GNU/NetBSD port, which was based on
NetBSD's libc, the GNU/kNetBSD port (based on glibc), was started at
the same time as GNU/kFreeBSD but was short-lived and put into
hibernation to try to focus the effort on GNU/kFreeBSD. But that
has been a very long winter…
> If this is true (please confirm) then we should probably remove knetbsd from
> - upstream config repo
> - GCC
> - binutils-gdb
The difference between removing support in the toolchain and in the
upstream config repo is that for the former it will just need forward
porting the patches, but for the latter it takes a very long time and
lots of prodding to get upstream projects to update to current config.*
scripts. (In Debian we have been switching to always update the config.*
scripts at build time so it would probably not be too bad going forward
for us, but it would when using projects directly from upstream.)
Although I always find it a bit sad to remove ports support, I have the
impression the GNU/kNetBSD port is not coming to live any time soon. So
you might want to wait a bit for comments from others, perhaps someone
has been working on such port that we are not aware of, but otherwise I
think removal would be fine.
Thanks,
Guillem
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