From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2130 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2002 21:16:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2099 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 21:16:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 21:16:26 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18K5Ef-0002J5-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:16:49 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18K3Mf-000582-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:16:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:16:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Klee Dienes , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. Message-ID: <20021205211657.GA19698@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Klee Dienes , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3DEF8642.70405@redhat.com> <20021205210325.GA19068@nevyn.them.org> <3DEFC16A.50807@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DEFC16A.50807@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00183.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:13:14PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >>I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'll elaborate on the > >>situation a bit in hopes that I can answer it anyway. > >> > >>Automake-1.4p5 generates Makefile.in's that use the syntax: > >> > >>ylwrap PROGRAM INPUT [OUTPUT DESIRED]... -- [ARGS]... > >> > >>Automake-1.7 generates Makefile.in's that use the syntax: > >> > >>ylwrap INPUT [OUTPUT DESIRED]... -- PROGRAM [ARGS]... > >> > >>So if we use automake-1.7 to build Makefile.in binutils/ld/gas, we need > >>to use the ylwrap from automake-1.7 as well, which uses the new syntax > >>and therefore requires the change to the GDB Makefile.in. I don't > >>think it's possible to have a version of the GDB Makefile.in that works > >>with both versions. > > > > > >But, to clarify even further: if we use the new ylwrap from Automake > >1.7, regardless of what version of _automake_ we are using, then Klee's > >patch to gdb/Makefile.in will work. > > > >This means that all directories which use both automake and ylwrap must > >be converted at the same time however. > > [australian expletive deleted] > > But GDB, which doesn't use automake, can start using the new one > (locally) now, and get the patches committed? Probably not. It expects it to be in the toplevel directory. Might be able to override YLWRAP for now. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer