From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31390 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 00:26:35 -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 31306 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 00:26:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta06ps.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.138) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 00:26:33 -0000 Received: from bubble.local ([144.135.25.69]) by mta06ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta06ps May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id H6O98500.33G for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:26:29 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-136-184-243.sa.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.184.243]) by PSMAM01.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 71/3932728); 06 Dec 2002 10:26:07 Received: (qmail 19881 invoked by uid 179); 6 Dec 2002 00:26:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:30:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Mike Stump Cc: zack@codesourcery.com, neroden@twcny.rr.com, klee@apple.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: <20021206002606.GZ27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Stump , zack@codesourcery.com, neroden@twcny.rr.com, klee@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, newlib@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <20021205231909.GY27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:45:52PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote: > On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 03:19 PM, Alan Modra wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:55:38PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > >>Perhaps --enable-maintainer-mode could be extended to specify a PATH > >>to use to find the tools. > > > >It would need to be on a per-directory basis. Something like > > > >--enable-maintainer-mode=\ > >"gdb:/usr/local/000227/bin,libstdc++-v3:/usr/local/oldauto/bin,*:yes" > > This is beyond gross. :-( Sniff. I'm sure I could make it a lot more gross. :) > Better to require > > autoconf-2.14 > autoconf > > and then have each directory know which one to use, and require the > advanced user to have these. > > OAUTOCONF = autoconf-2.14 > AUTOCONF = autoconf > > and then use $(AUTOCONF) for new uses, and $(OAUTOCONF) for old uses. > > Also, we need a version check on the old autoconf to be sure that it > isn't too new. The trouble with this idea is that older autoconf and automake aren't installed as $tool-$version, and last I checked, current autoconf doesn't install with a version suffix. Old tools really need to be installed with a different --prefix. Hmm, I suppose a few symbolic links would cure that problem. What happens if you need three three or four different versions of autoconf? -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre