From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1120 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2002 21:13:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1105 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 21:13:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 21:13:22 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7533FE4; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:13:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DEFC16A.50807@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:13:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz , Klee Dienes Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. References: <3DEF8642.70405@redhat.com> <20021205210325.GA19068@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00182.txt.bz2 >> I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'll elaborate on the >> situation a bit in hopes that I can answer it anyway. >> >> Automake-1.4p5 generates Makefile.in's that use the syntax: >> >> ylwrap PROGRAM INPUT [OUTPUT DESIRED]... -- [ARGS]... >> >> Automake-1.7 generates Makefile.in's that use the syntax: >> >> ylwrap INPUT [OUTPUT DESIRED]... -- PROGRAM [ARGS]... >> >> So if we use automake-1.7 to build Makefile.in binutils/ld/gas, we need >> to use the ylwrap from automake-1.7 as well, which uses the new syntax >> and therefore requires the change to the GDB Makefile.in. I don't >> think it's possible to have a version of the GDB Makefile.in that works >> with both versions. > > > But, to clarify even further: if we use the new ylwrap from Automake > 1.7, regardless of what version of _automake_ we are using, then Klee's > patch to gdb/Makefile.in will work. > > This means that all directories which use both automake and ylwrap must > be converted at the same time however. [australian expletive deleted] But GDB, which doesn't use automake, can start using the new one (locally) now, and get the patches committed? Andrew