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[bug#50778] [PATCH] m4: Don't require courage on unsupported systems.
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#50778] [PATCH] m4: Don't require courage on unsupported systems. |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:15:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Howdy!
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:43:54AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> Ah! So I think you’re asking that there be three levels:
>>
>> 1. Fully supported (should include i586-gnu).
>>
>> 2. “Half supported” or “in the works”, like mips64el-linux and
>> powerpc-linux: in that case, maybe just emit a warning with
>> AC_MSG_WARN?
>>
>> 3. Unsupported: error asking users to pass ‘--with-courage’.
>>
>> How does that sound?
>
> I hadn't really planned on keeping the third category, but thinking
> about it more it would make sense to keep it for architectures that we
> don't even have bootstrap binaries for. Vagrant said he was able to
> build the guix package for riscv64-linux, I think without even adding my
> patches for adding the bootstrap binaries. By forcing people to pass
> --with-courage it goes past "it doesn't really work" and all the way
> into "really really unsupported"
>
> So yes, I like the idea of the three levels.
Alright. Can you send (or push) an updated patch?
Thanks!
Ludo’.