From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13869 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2002 13:34:29 -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 13687 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 13:34:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl) (213.192.72.1) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 13:34:25 -0000 Received: from localhost by delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA27232; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:34:34 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 05:52:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Andrew Cagney cc: Klee Dienes , Daniel Jacobowitz , DJ Delorie , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. In-Reply-To: <3DEFA203.4010607@redhat.com> Message-ID: Organization: Technical University of Gdansk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > I'd argue that we should: > > > > 1) Specify the versions of autoconf/automake/libtool/gettext by reference to official tarballs from ftp.gnu.org. In general, define the version used to be "the most recent officially released version of each tool". > > Reality check. If the offical autoconf has a bug, GDB and BINUTILS will > be forced to use a local version :-/ Well, if that happens, the affected tool should be fixed eventually (assuming the discoverer of the bug bothered submitting fixes to the relevant maintainer). Until then, it's much better to make a patch that fixes the bug available, than to prepare own tarballs (or apart from). This way one may apply required patches to new versions of the tool. This simplifies local maintenance of the tool as other patches or newer versions may be required for other software. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +