Paolo Bonzini writes: > > >>>> Certainly. Any compile-and-link tests won't work. > >>> I'm sorry, I missed the "and link" part of your question. Configury > >>> tests of this kind really aren't going to work. For things like tests > >>> for PIC, it's pointless: gcj supports the same options as gcc. > >> Then, does anybody know the very reason why all those tests are run > >> repeatedly for each language? > > > > I will guess. It is because the C/C++/Java/Fortran/.. compilers may > > not come from the same gcc version or based on gcc at all. > > Okay, so we have a problem. Because the patch you are proposing will > not be accepted in any way by upstream. :-(
How come we are doing this *now*? Why was it not a problem before, and what has changed? Andrew.
