From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18015 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2006 04:16:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 17999 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2006 04:16:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ausmtp06.au.ibm.com (HELO ausmtp06.au.ibm.com) (202.81.18.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:16:36 +0000 Received: from sd0208e0.au.ibm.com (d23rh904.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.202]) by ausmtp06.au.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k874HeDT8298536; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:17:40 +1000 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.243]) by sd0208e0.au.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k874JdEv182958; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:19:45 +1000 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k874DEWR011169; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:13:15 +1000 Received: from ozlabs.au.ibm.com (ozlabs.au.ibm.com [9.190.163.12]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k874DERk011159; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:13:14 +1000 Received: by ozlabs.au.ibm.com (Postfix, from userid 1017) id A001573759; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:16:13 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:16:00 -0000 From: Ben Elliston To: Steve Ellcey , binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Patch to update top-level config to autoconf 2.59 Message-ID: <20060907041613.GA14815@ozlabs.au.ibm.com> References: <200608102008.NAA28243@hpsje.cup.hp.com> <20060810202957.GA31776@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060810202957.GA31776@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 > > 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