Re: Change gdb/common/ to use Automake

Joel Brobecker
2011-02-15T04:06:42Z

> First, we would want to check in generated files, to make it easy to
> check out and build gdb. This means that anybody modifying the source
> file will need to use the correct version of Automake, to avoid churn in
> the repository.

I don't think that this is going to be a problem at all. We're familiar
with checking in files generated by autoheader, autoconf, etc, and since
we've been using gnulib, we've added aclocal (I'm not even sure that
I covered them all! :-)).

> Second, the output of the tool is fairly opaque. So, when something
> goes wrong, you have another layer of goo to wade through.

I'm really in that category - having trouble going through the goo.
But it's true that we touch these files relatively seldomly, so if
it helps in other areas, we can give it a try and see how it goes.
It could be a good way to evaluate it for gdbserver, for instance.

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Joel