From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17131 invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2002 00:06:34 -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 17124 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2002 00:06:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 29 Dec 2002 00:06:33 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18SSqr-0004pF-00 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 20:06:54 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18SQzf-0006fD-00 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:07:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:24:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rewrite testsuite/configure.in Message-ID: <20021229000751.GA25520@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200212282214.gBSME9SI002266@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212282214.gBSME9SI002266@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00743.txt.bz2 On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:14:09PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Since we're talking about the transition to Autoconf 2.5x, I've > started a cleanup of the various configure.in files in GDB. The idea > is to make the new configure.in files compatible with both Autoconf > 2.13 and Autoconf 2.5x (where x=3 for now, since that's the version of > Autoconf that's installed on my FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 system that I > use to hack on). In the process I try to modernize the files as much > as possible, such that the differences between the files and a true > Autoconf 2.5x configure.ac will be minimal. > > Attached is a patch that takes a stab at testsuite/configure.in. > Processing this file with Autoconf 2.53 provokes the following > warning: > > configure.in:114: warning: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS: you should use literals > > which unfortunately is unavoidable. > > Since the patch is a wee bit unreadable, here's the new configure.in verbatim: > > # -*- Autoconf -*- > # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. > If there are no objections, I'll check this in in a week or so. No objections, but: do you think it's possible to eliminate the need to configure in each individual subdir? It's moderately annoying, and I don't think we need it. About the only thing we use it for now is for "make clean" to clean up the testsuite directory. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer