I reached out on IRC, and got some feedback on this patch. In particular, Arsen
thought the idea made some sense, but that while there was as-yet no long-term
policy or design decision on this sort of thing, a proper --with-* flag would
wrongly appear to instantly-stable, but a mere autoconf cac
Hello, this 4-year-old patch of mine was never reviewed. Per
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/414299, we in a package set / distro,
Nixpkgs/NixOS, just began (albeit on an experimental basis) packaging GCC with
this patch (among others) applied. It would thus be nice to get it applied
upst
From: John Ericson
Previously, they always scraped the thread mode from `$CC -v', now, that
is the default but one may pass `--with-threads=MODEL` to be explicit
instead.
One use-case is bootstraping with a shorter critical path. The
traditionally route was to build an entire "static stage" GCC,
