Re: Gmp test failure on armhf

[Andreas Enge]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 03:08:14AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> A while back on IRC, Ludovic agreed to my proposal to pass --build to
> configure by default in gnu-build-system, a change to be made hopefully
> in the next core-updates cycle.  After that, config.guess will not be
> used.

That sounds good to me and would indeed render my patch superfluous.

> As for NEON, I had originally followed Debian's armhf decision to
> compile code that doesn't require NEON support, but have since changed
> my mind about that.  It seems that the Debian porters made that decision
> to support a couple of hardware devices that may have been important at
> the time, but that time has passed.  I've since learned that NEON is a
> common target for modern highly optimized ARM assembly code, and that we
> should assume it as a baseline.

I agree with that.

Andreas