Hi James,
> Our intention, tell me if you disagree, is that cobol is enabled if
>
> 1. --enable-languages=all, and
> 2. the host and target are "known good", x86_64 or aarch64
you tend to forget there's a world outside of Linux, actually: as you
can see at least in PRs cobol/119217 and cobol/119218, the code is
currently riddled with lots of Linux-specific assumptions which break
left and right on e.g. Darwin/x86_64 and Solaris/amd64. Until this is
sorted out, this should be x86_64-*-linux* and aarch64-*-linux*, I
believe.
> or
>
> 3. --enable-languages=cobol, and
> 4. the host and target are "plausible", 64-bit LE.
I don't think that's right: --enable-languages=cobol should enable cobol
unconditionally if the user forces it, say to try on a different
architecture (like sparcv9, which is 64-bit BE). No need to
second-guess here or force users to modify configure here.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
