From: Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com>
To: Steve Ellcey <sje@cup.hp.com>,
binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Patch to update top-level config to autoconf 2.59
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060907041613.GA14815@ozlabs.au.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060810202957.GA31776@nevyn.them.org>
> > Here is my final patch to update autoconf in the src tree. All subtrees
> > have been updated to be configured by autoconf 2.59 and this patch
> > updates the top level configure and Makefiles to also use 2.59. The
> > only real change needed was to rename AS_FOR_TARGET to GAS_FOR_TARGET.
> > I also changed COMPILER_AS_FOR_TARGET to COMPILER_GAS_FOR_TARGET, though
> > that wasn't strictly necessary, it just seemed like a good idea to
> > maintain the naming consistency.
>
> Why was the AS_FOR_TARGET change necessary?
I wondered that, too. I'm concerned that this is a user-visible
change that might break users and/or build scripts. It's possible to
use other assemblers for assembling target code and we should not
preclude this (or hint at it by virtue of its name).
Ben
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-07 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 20:41 Steve Ellcey
2006-08-10 21:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-10 21:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-11 21:13 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-10 21:15 ` Steve Ellcey
2006-08-11 13:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
[not found] ` <20060810210600.GA1378__12102.1454142921$1155243979$gmane$org@nevyn.them.org>
2006-08-15 12:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <44E02713.1070107__1567.96999876878$1155540766$gmane$org@lu.unisi.ch>
2006-08-15 14:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2006-09-07 4:16 ` Ben Elliston [this message]
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