From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18480 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2001 19:28:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18401 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2001 19:27:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 19:27:59 -0000 Received: from taarna.cygnus.com (taarna.cygnus.com [205.180.230.102]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA18829; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:27:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (jeffh@localhost) by taarna.cygnus.com (SMI-8.6/8.6.4) id LAA00116; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:27:57 -0800 Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:27:00 -0000 From: Jeff Holcomb X-Sender: jeffh@taarna.cygnus.com To: Andrew Cagney cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Patch] updated ltcf-*.sh, ltconfig, ltmain.sh In-Reply-To: <3BF22763.6090001@cygnus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Is there a reason for pulling in GCC's hacks rather than going to the > official version per src/MAINTAINERS: > > ltconfig; ltmain.sh > libtool: http://gnu.org > Changes need to be done in tandem with the official LIBTOOL > sources or submitted to the master file maintainer and brought > in via a merge. It was my impression from Alexandre that he had already imported these changes from the official sources into gcc's tree. For some reason, they weren't imported into the binutils/gdb tree at that time. > If we pull in a GCC hack such as: > > > 2001-07-21 Michael Chastain > > * ltconfig: Set max_cmd_len to a maximum of 512Kb, as it seems some > > HPUX 11.0 systems have trouble with 1MB. Mark as gcc-local. > > * ltmain.sh: Mark as gcc-local. > > then (no offence to MichaelC) we're taking on the responsibility of > carrying that patch forward everytime a further import occures. I understand this is in the official sources now, so it's not actually a gcc-local hack. Perhaps the entry should be changed. I do need this to be able to configure on our HPUX 11.0 systems. -- Jeff Holcomb jeffh@redhat.com GDB Engineering Red Hat, Inc.