A wiki page that has the mapping from the old style to the new style
targets is appropriate. I know that I'll hit the, what is x called
now, and I too will be at a loss. Going back and reading the email
archives to find it would be annoying.
Strongly agreed, though once it gets finalized it should be moved from the
wiki into the main GCC documentation.
Even better though would be some option to keep the "old style". As I
understand it, the point here is to add functionality at top level, but that
shouldn't be at the expense of functionality at the gcc/ level. Indeed I
see no reason that we can't be upwards compatible.
It's extremely valuable to have a single script that can do a build given any
GCC version and the fewer the number of parameterizations that are needed in
that script the better.
Also, it's important to keep in mind that many people have multiple build
directories for many versions of the compiler (3.2, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, head)
and many targets so uniformity is key to managing that complexity.
