From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17464 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2004 18:22:03 -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 17426 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2004 18:22:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl) (153.19.208.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 2004 18:22:01 -0000 Received: by jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl (Postfix, from userid 1011) id 4200947C6D; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jurand.ds.pg.gda.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FD64787B; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:22:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 6.1: Quote macro names being defined by AC_DEFUN In-Reply-To: <20040422222158.GA26611@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: References: <408822F3.6050607@gnu.org> <20040422222158.GA26611@nevyn.them.org> Organization: Technical University of Gdansk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00578.txt.bz2 On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Daniel, were you looking at upgrading GDB to autoconf 2.5.x? > > I've been looking at it on and off, but not working on it - not until I > get done with binutils. I'll need to touch GDB for a change to > top-level ylwrap but I have been putting that off until I have more > time to test it. With the other patch (config-subdirs) I've proposed her recently gdb/ appears to be safe for use with autoconf 2.59, i.e. there are no errors from autoconf and the configuration output seems correct. But I did limited testing only (mipsel-linux and i386-linux targets only) and with the top-level converted to autoconf 2.59, too. Additional testing would be definitely desirable. The sim/ directory requires additional patches, which I've implemented and made available. Unfortunately it also hits a nasty bug in autoconf 2.58/2.59 (and likely older versions), which I'm told "would require considerable poking around in m4sugar.m4 to fix." I have a workaround for the bug for sim/, but given the current setup works, perhaps it's better to wait for autoconf to be fixed. This (am18) patch is orthogonal to autoconf -- it's required to shut up aclocal (which promises to bail out in this case in a future version), and it's just a sanitization of macro definitions. The quoting was always valid here and perhaps recommended for autoconf 2.13 vintage tools, too. It wasn't forced back then, but the tools were much less picky about unsafe constructs in general. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +