From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7041 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2015 22:59:10 -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 7024 invoked by uid 89); 19 Mar 2015 22:59:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ob0-f171.google.com Received: from mail-ob0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f171.google.com) (209.85.214.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:59:09 +0000 Received: by obcxo2 with SMTP id xo2so66138847obc.0 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:59:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=mTOSw1Q4RAj4Rknbh2sxHQfXAYTbYYCjn5IzvMFEwK0=; b=GyUFVo1lL1OxZMKm7JQ8uott0+SSIUclJDnULpavS51129lQS1C2Cq0CvMmXuHDas8 zSKW5HJgb1kBITHJkmRgPfAFf4oJZ7PVaxwF6ylbPxm1UiAKQ6tWnSgjqt3DhXioxHg2 x8lOoG0UDPfA5lt4exSv2JCyZVpU92F/W5XQ0c+T4Sr0zNL8K6McgRlDFzx+LB4ylOgG ZmjKT3qNAgSBKJrHIoc/InoRr0aNZTzJIkz+h9PCQvMsPA/BvrVDyic2p0jEFVE+KZ8O EsMRJ3qlekzbT6en6MKKbVIeMhmCajWcI3x8qmgr48gaEcg5pCiMQTqLvGtichwwCeK/ DCsw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl2bNmblAB65UwwBfQ9O/R+j97ngUmwvMCuhduQJp2E2djkrY1k+lbOv2J9Bzg2W6jMpfDX MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.24.97 with SMTP id t1mr62789025obf.77.1426805947076; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.142.226 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:59:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150319120631.GB4884@adacore.com> References: <20150311094134.GE9455@vapier> <1426310999-13103-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <20150319120631.GB4884@adacore.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] update automake version to 1.11.6 From: Doug Evans To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Mike Frysinger , Binutils , gdb-patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00605.txt.bz2 On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Debian stable (wheezy) and newer only have 1.11.6. >> Ubuntu Trusty and newer only have 1.11.6. >> Gentoo dropped <=1.11.5 2 years ago. >> Fedora R17 was the last one to offer 1.11.x (it was 1.11.6). >> Centos 7 doesn't offer any 1.11.x version. >> OpenSUSE 12.2 was the last one to offer 1.11.x. >> Arch Linux dropped 1.11.x 3 years ago. >> Mageia 2 was the last one to offer 1.11.x. >> >> So anyone who readily has access to automake 1.11.[0-5] is using a two >> year old distro that is no longer supported. Lets use 1.11.6 as it's >> the only 1.11.x version that is easily available. >> >> 2015-03-14 Mike Frysinger >> >> * README-maintainer-mode: Update automake to 1.11.6. > > FWIW, I tend to avoid using the auto-tools already installed, because > I don't know what patches they might contain. Those patches can result > in small differences which inexplicably show up when you regenerate > some files after making some modifications. That's why I rebuilt > them all from source, and use them when regenerating files. > > All in all, I'm not against switching to 1.11.6 but we should then > regenerate all affected files now, and I would prefer it if that was > done using an unmodified release rather than one that might have been > modified by the distro. +1 on avoiding distro releases.