Re: [PATCH] bfd: recognize *-*-windows* Windows targets

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026, Pedro Alves wrote:

> > Further, while in the follow-on mail you say this aiming at gdb, what
> > about in particular ld? If ld is deliberately not covered, wouldn't
> > top-level configury then want to gain a noconfigdirs adjustment, such
> > that ld (and perhaps also other components) won't even be tried to be
> > configured?
> 
> ld currently gets:
> 
>  *** ld does not support target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
>  *** see ld/configure.tgt for supported targets
> 
> I myself configure with --disable-ld, etc. as (for this target) I want
> to use gdb against clang + lld-link.

 Does it break compilation then where no explicit `--disable-ld' has been 
given?  If so, then it's a no-no, cf. commit 58d798318c42 ("AMDGCN: 
Disable subdirectory configuration for unsupported GAS and LD") for the 
right way to handle it.

  Maciej