On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 14.03.2008 um 00:32 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Rick Vernam wrote:
[gcc4] Not supported? Okay, fine. But don't tell me it can't
work.
The fact of the matter is that I use it daily.
Make configure fail horribly? Well, that seems a bit
counter-productive, don't you think?
If you would only have researched a _little_ bit, you would have
found
out that x86, by far the most common platform at the moment, which
you
should have known before stating what you stated, does _not_ work
with
gcc4.
OK, so Rick is guilty not using the most common platform. Wasn't it
one
of the major goals of qemu to work on a wide variety of different
platforms?
WTF? Rick suggested removing that configure message that you need to
explicitely override its quite sane default to refuse work with gcc4,
because at least one platform (the most common one) has problems
with it.
I was against removing this safety valve, because it does _nothing_ to
help users understand why QEmu does not compile.
The situation now: gcc4 is not supported, but might work. configure
tells
you as much, and even gives you rope to try nevertheless.
The situation suggested: configure silently ignores the fact that
gcc4 is
the current compiler, and in some (not at all rare) cases, the
compilation
just fails without a clue.