From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: introduce common.m4
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obd3n4c8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51782A71.7030305@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:54:41 +0100")
>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
Pedro> What's the advantage of doing it this way? Caching? Doesn't autoconf
Pedro> use the cached value if there are multiple AC_CHECK_FOOs for the same
Pedro> thing? Not super sure I like this over keeping each directory aware
Pedro> of its dependencies, but I suppose I can go along.
The advantage is in maintenance. Right now one must remember to update
both gdb and gdbserver configure scripts in parallel.
>> This process revealed a few things not checked for in gdbserver
>> (nothing too crucial I think) and also that the decl check for getopt
>> was dead.
Pedro> Ah, an "also". ;-)
Yeah. I'll split it out.
>> gdbserver:
>> * acinclude.m4: Include common.m4, codeset.m4.
Pedro> codeset.m4?
It was needed for the AM_LANGINFO_CODESET call, which was needed for
HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-24 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-24 20:51 Tom Tromey
2013-04-24 23:16 ` Pedro Alves
2013-04-25 1:47 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-04-25 2:45 ` Pedro Alves
2013-04-25 5:48 ` Tom Tromey
2013-04-26 21:01 ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-22 17:49 ` Tom Tromey
2013-07-26 15:34 ` Pedro Alves
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