From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20247 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2002 22:36:39 -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 20176 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 22:36:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.125) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 22:36:37 -0000 Received: from doctormoo (syr-24-24-16-193.twcny.rr.com [24.24.16.193]) by mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id gB5MaXk20385; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:36:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from neroden by doctormoo with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18K4ap-0000yt-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:35:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:40:00 -0000 To: zack@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, newlib@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. Message-ID: <20021205223538.GA24616@doctormoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Nathanael Nerode X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 >I'd like to remind everyone involved that last I checked it was flat >impossible to do what libstdc++-v3/configure.in needs to do, using >autoconf 2.5x. I am not particularly sanguine about the situation Flat impossible? Wow. And for the top level, all I had to do was define my own entire set of macros to replace the AC_CHECK_TOOL and AC_PROG_* collection. :-) I'd be interested to hear more about the problem. Why can't it be dealt with by using private macros? --Nathanael