bug#50778: [PATCH] m4: Don't require courage on unsupported systems.

[Efraim Flashner]

Finally took care of this today.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 03:15:54PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:43:54AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:00:16AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > >> Yes, I’d rather mark i586-gnu as supported in m4/guix.m4 (it should have
> > >> been the case long ago) and keep the error and ‘--with-courage’ flag.
> > >> 
> > >> WDYT?
> > >
> > > I'm OK with changing i586-gnu to supported in m4/guix.m4. However, part
> > > of the plan was to make it so that we didn't have to have the
> > > --with-courage flag when building for mips64el, and so we could remove
> > > powerpc-linux so it would also say that it is unsupported but we
> > > wouldn't need people to make special versions of the guix package so
> > > they can try to build it. I can make it bigger and flashier, so it looks
> > > more like
> > 
> > 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.
> 
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