From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 66297 invoked by alias); 12 May 2015 23:26:56 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 66287 invoked by uid 89); 12 May 2015 23:26:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 12 May 2015 23:26:55 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t4CNQnp8032658 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 12 May 2015 19:26:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (unused-10-15-17-126.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.17.126]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t4CNQnsq016007 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 12 May 2015 19:26:49 -0400 From: Sergio Durigan Junior To: Doug Evans Cc: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi , Pedro Alves , gdb-patches Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] catch syscall group References: <001a11c3b928756ec20515e95aba@google.com> <878uctjvyg.fsf@redhat.com> X-URL: http://blog.sergiodj.net Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 23:26:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Doug Evans's message of "Tue, 12 May 2015 15:44:14 -0700") Message-ID: <874mnhjs22.fsf@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00291.txt.bz2 On Tuesday, May 12 2015, Doug Evans wrote: >> What exactly are you refering to? Generating the XML files using >> xsltproc when compiling GDB? I will assume this in the rest of the >> message, but if that's not what you meant, then please disconsider. > > Ah. I figured people know what --enable-maintainer-mode is. :-) I always knew GDB had it, but I confess I never tried it myself. > --enable-maintainer-mode is a configure time option that turns > on some makefile dependency checking that is normally off. > It is used, for example, to automagically regenerate configure > when configure.ac changes, and only when make's > standard processing says they need regenerating: i.e., > when the timestamp of the generated file is older than a timestamp > of one of its dependencies. > > What happens if the user doesn't supply --enable-maintainer-mode > when configuring? [which is the norm] > Then the dependencies are turned off and no automagic regeneration > is done (which is what one would want for a default). Right, thanks for explaining. I don't know if a lot of people use this or not (it seems to me that they don't), but yeah, since we have it... >> I don't necessarily oppose hooking the XML generation into the >> --enable-maintainer-mode option, but I'm having the impression that we >> are bloating this feature more and more, without much gain. Unless I'm >> really blind to some benefit, in which case I apologize in advance. > > What I'm asking for is trivial to do (there's already boilerplate > to cut-n-paste-n-tweak form), *and* it is s.o.p. > [If people want a different configure option than --enable-maintainer-mode > than it'll involve a bit more work, but it's still all s.o.p.] > > I really don't think I'm asking for anything unusual or excessive. If what you're asking is trivial to do, then sure, I agree! I mean, we've gone this far already, right? :-) Thanks for the e-mail, and sorry if I sounded harsh. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/