Re: [PATCH] Removal of obsolete AmigaOS support

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Marcus Comstedt wrote:
> Scott James Remnant <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 20:33, Marcus Comstedt wrote:
> >
> >
> > > As a step in implementing support for the new AmigaOS 4.0 in GCC, I
> > > noticed that there are some ancient remains of "amigaos" support in
> > > the libtool configuration scripts.  These are intended for the now
> > > defunct GeekGadgets project though, and not applicable to the new
> > > AmigaOS.  In fact, they prevent libtool from working with AmigaOS
> > > 4.0.  Therefore, I'm hereby submitting a patch to remove this obsolete
> > > and incompatible code.
> >
> > How defunct is the project?  Is there still a significant userbase that
> > might want to run things compiled using libtool, or is it so dead and
> > defunct that nobody uses it anymore?
>
>
> The project has not been maintained for two years, with the exception
> of the GCC port.  When I spoke to the current maintainer of the
> GeekGadgets GCC port (Gunther Nikl <address@hidden>), he had this to
> say:
>
> | Right, but then I already disabled this part in ltconfig because it didn't
> | work for me and I believe this *ixlibrary is obsolete. Nobody is using it
> | anymore.
>
> So, I think that it can be assumed that there is no point in keeping
> this code.

It worked well enough for building kaffe 1.0.7 (which is far from being 
a trivial app) on m68k-amigaos last time around. In fact, our amigaOS 
developer contributed a patch or two to libtool to make sure the latest 
libtool 1.5 runs well on amigaOS 3.9 on m68k machines. Those patches are 
in libtool CVS now.

The major problem right now in running libtool 1.5 plus amigaos patches 
from CVS on m68k based machines (amigaos, or not) is the very inefficent 
check for maximum allowed variable length, that can take up to an hour, 
or more.

> > Does the GCC stuff use the amigaos* configuration name as well?  If not,
> > I don't see how it's incompatible, if it does then surely an extra case
> > statement would distinguish the two?
>
>
> Well, they can be distinguished by the CPU architecture, since the new
> OS is currently PPC only, and the old stuff is for m68k.

sounds like the way to go for me.

cheers,
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