Re: Serious (semi-)infinite loop

[Tim Van Holder]

> Oh, yeah -- I just remembered that this Makefile.am relies on a hacked
> automake 1.4 and does some other bad things.  For instance it has both
That seems odd, as it is part of the gcc tree. And as I understand it they
are reluctant to rely on hacked versions of tools.

> `src/mips/n32.S' and `src/mips/n32.s'.  These aren't even
> distinguishable on Windows.
This is apparently fixed in the current version of libffi; the version
that is part of gcc is an older one, where the situation persists.

> So making it work with 1.5 isn't a priority.
Well, that leaves me in a bind, as it makes me unable to configure the
gcc tree.

> Anyway, I'll definitely look into this and see what, if anything, can
> be done for 1.5.  At the very least I'll document the supported way to
> conditionally compile sources.
Okidoki.