Re: [PATCH] configure: Remove obsolete check for -b i486-linuxaout

[Florian Weimer]

* Eli Zaretskii:

>> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:49:25 +0100
>> 
>> If there are still a.out system arounds, they shouldn't need this
>> anymore because the toolchain has been fixed.
>> 
>> * configure.ac (emacs_cv_b_link): Remove obsolete check.
>
> Thanks, I installed this on the master branch, since it sounds like
> this is a cleanup, not a real problem.  If my conclusion is wrong, and
> this part of the configure script does cause problems, please post
> the details, and I will consider back-porting to the release branch.

Thanks!

It causes issues with a particular approach to C99 porting.  But to my
knowledge, only Fedora uses this approach, and we are carrying it as a
downstream-only patch for now.

Florian