From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwUlD-0008NF-Ht for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:31:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwUlB-0008Mf-Vm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:31:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwUlB-0008MV-PI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:31:17 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.4] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GwUlB-0004KS-Jm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:31:17 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Improve gcc 3 checking Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:31:06 +0000 References: <45874D81.1090508@cs.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <45874D81.1090508@cs.utexas.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612190231.08331.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Anthony Liguori On Tuesday 19 December 2006 02:25, Anthony Liguori wrote: > +gcc3_list=3D"gcc32 gcc33 gcc34 gcc-3.2 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.4" Shouldn't we be preferring newer compilers? > +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0echo "Looking for gcc 3.x" We shouldn't do this if if the user explicitly specified a compiler. Replacing explicit user setting with guesses is bad. Paul