[lugm.org] Fwd: Re: [PATCH] PR target/48904 x86_64-knetbsd-gnu missing defs

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR target/48904 x86_64-knetbsd-gnu 
missing defs
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 09:53:02 AM
From: Jeff Law <law at redhat.com>
To: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com>
CC: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc.gnu.org>, H . J . Lu 
<hjl.tools at gmail.com>, debian-bsd at lists.debian.org

On 04/30/2015 01:58 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30 April 2015 at 07:00, Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> 
wrote:
>> On 04/29/2015 02:01 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>> 2012-09-21  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu at 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.
> If this is true (please confirm) then we should probably 
remove knetbsd from
> - upstream config repo
> - GCC
> - binutils-gdb
>
> instead of the above patchlet.
> This would work equally well for me WRT config-list.mk 
builds..
> [I should have checked this earlier, sorry..]
Given what Guillem indicated, I'd support removal.

It's often the case that we mark it as deprecated and issue an 
explicit 
error if someone tries to build the port.  That seems wise here.

jeff


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Seems the death of knetbsd in debian ports