From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1485 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 00:30:58 -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 1447 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 00:30:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO egil.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 00:30:57 -0000 Received: from zack by egil.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18K6OL-00069v-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:30:53 -0800 To: Mike Stump Cc: neroden@twcny.rr.com, klee@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, newlib@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. References: <20021205231909.GY27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <20021206002606.GZ27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20021206002606.GZ27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> (Alan Modra's message of "Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:56:06 +1030") Message-ID: <874r9srnsy.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00216.txt.bz2 Alan Modra writes: > > The trouble with this idea is that older autoconf and automake aren't > installed as $tool-$version, and last I checked, current autoconf > doesn't install with a version suffix. Old tools really need to be > installed with a different --prefix. Hmm, I suppose a few symbolic > links would cure that problem. What happens if you need three three > or four different versions of autoconf? Debian has a clever wrapper script (in the autoconf2.13 package) that causes configure to get regenerated using 2.13 unless there's an AC_PREREQ(2.5x) line in configure.in, or configure.in is named configure.ac. But I think that we really just ought to get the transition done, assuming that it is in fact possible. zw