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From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: automatic dependency tracking
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080807192204.GH27560@ins.uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m363qciwgj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

* Tom Tromey wrote on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:09:00PM CEST:
> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> +sinclude([../config/depstand.m4])
> 
> Ralf> Why sinclude?  Shouldn't aclocal fail if the file cannot be included?
> Ralf> (Just curious, really; I see this is done with other files, too.)

> I have a vague recollection that there was some version of autoconf,
> in the distant past, where sinclude was the only way to do this kind
> of inclusion.  Then, once this gets into the code, it tends to stick.
> 
> So, I think this is probably just inertia and not something more
> obscure.

OK.  I'll put it on my grand list of Things To Clean Up In GCC, GDB,
binutils, newlib, and where-not-else.

Thanks,
Ralf


      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 22:14 Tom Tromey
2008-07-30 17:53 ` Pedro Alves
2008-07-30 19:12   ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-31 18:51     ` Pedro Alves
2008-07-31 10:48 ` Andrew STUBBS
2008-07-31 12:16   ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-31 14:43   ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-02 20:34     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-08-07  5:50 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2008-08-07 13:47   ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-07 13:53     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-07 19:17     ` Ralf Wildenhues
2008-08-07 20:07       ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-07 20:46         ` Ralf Wildenhues
2008-08-07 20:51           ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-07 20:17       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-07 20:22         ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-07 20:46           ` Ralf Wildenhues
2008-08-07 20:49             ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-07 20:59       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-07 22:51         ` Ralf Wildenhues
2008-08-08 14:37           ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-08-08 15:18             ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-08 15:24               ` Ralf Wildenhues
2008-08-08 17:27                 ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-08 17:35               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-07 17:09   ` Tom Tromey
2008-08-07 19:23     ` Ralf Wildenhues [this message]

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