In message <20011001014641.A6846@rek.tjls.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>I'm curious how much longer this will be left broken.  Obviously, the
>effort that went into the new toolchain work is laudable, but I'm
>left with the feeling that I shouldn't tinker with this collateral
>damage myself because there's work in progress, while at the same time
>I have no idea how much longer it will be until that progress materializes.

Seconded.  Should I be trying builds and doing send-pr, or waiting quietly?

>Meanwhile, I'd like to build a snapshot so other people can try out some
>of the UBC performance fixes.  Any light at the end of the tunnel WRT
>new toolchain related lossage in the build system?  Should I start whacking
>things myself?  There are obvious ways to fix the lossage with the sets,
>but they're pretty ugly -- for example, splitting out a large number of
>files from the MI to MD file for each set.

Exactly.  Ick!

-s