From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] struct lwp in bsd-kvm.c
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <411669FA.2010403@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21770E77-E95C-11D8-A324-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>
>
> On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
>> Thanks, yes, except that configure and config.in need to be
>> regenerated; with a special version of autoconf :-(.
>
>
> [Maybe a bit off-topic, but...]
>
> Can someone explain to me why "special" versions of the autotools are used?
There was a bug in one of the autotools that prevented something in src/
correctly configuring. To work around the problem, the binutils
autotoolset was created. GDB, to ensure consistency, uses those tools.
As with many things, it then entered folk law, with the exact
rationale for the mini-fork lost.
Fortunatly, people are now pushing through a switch to 2.5x.
How's that for a non-answer :-)
Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-08 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-06 20:42 Nathan J. Williams
2004-08-06 21:07 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-08-08 16:58 ` Jason Thorpe
2004-08-08 18:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-08-08 19:41 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
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