From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27644 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2011 10:04:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 27635 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Mar 2011 10:04:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (83.163.83.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:04:28 +0000 Received: from glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p26A48hq004808; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 11:04:08 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p26A476B018601; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 11:04:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:55:00 -0000 Message-Id: <201103061004.p26A476B018601@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: brobecker@adacore.com CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20110306045412.GL30306@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:54:12 +0400) Subject: Re: FYI: gdb/common/Makefile calling aclocal & autoconf... References: <20110306045412.GL30306@adacore.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00390.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:54:12 +0400 > From: Joel Brobecker > > FYI: I haven't had a chance to look at what the problem is, but > it seems to me that the gdb/common makefile seems to be calling > aclocal and autoconf even when it doesn't need to. I noticed that > yesterday when trying to build from scratch on a machine that did > not have these tools, and I'm seeing that again today while trying > to fix today's snapshot script (again, due to an issue related > to gdb/common/). The continued streem of issues with having a configure in the common/ directory makes me convinced that Ppedro is right and we should go back to explicitly list things in the gdb and gdbserver Makefiles.