RFA: fix gdbint.info autoconf version

RFA: fix gdbint.info autoconf version

[Douglas Evans]

gdbint.texinfo says to use the old autoconf on sourceware, but gdb/configure
is now regenerated with autoconf 2.59.

gdbint.texinfo:
Check the @code{autoconf} version carefully.  You want to be using the
version taken from the @file{binutils} snapshot directory, which can be
found at @uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/}. It is very
unlikely that a system installed version of @code{autoconf} (e.g.,
@file{/usr/bin/autoconf}) is correct.

ChangeLog-2005:
2005-01-07  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@gnu.org>

        * configure.ac: Rename configure.in, require autoconf 2.59.
        * configure: Re-generate.


How about this?

Index: doc/gdbint.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.275
diff -u -p -r1.275 gdbint.texinfo
--- doc/gdbint.texinfo  15 Nov 2007 06:14:26 -0000      1.275
+++ doc/gdbint.texinfo  27 Nov 2007 01:15:19 -0000
@@ -6290,10 +6290,9 @@ Notes:
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
 Check the @code{autoconf} version carefully.  You want to be using the
-version taken from the @file{binutils} snapshot directory, which can be
-found at @uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/}. It is very
-unlikely that a system installed version of @code{autoconf} (e.g.,
-@file{/usr/bin/autoconf}) is correct.
+same version.  See the top of @file{configure} to see what version
+generated it.  Currently this is 2.59.  Autoconf can be obtained from
+@uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/autoconf/}.
 @end itemize

 @subsubheading Check out the relevant modules:

Re: RFA: fix gdbint.info autoconf version

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:16:52 -0800
> From: "Douglas Evans" <dje@google.com>
> 
> How about this?

Okay, but for these two minor issues:

>  Check the @code{autoconf} version carefully.  You want to be using the
> -version taken from the @file{binutils} snapshot directory, which can be
> -found at @uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/}. It is very
> -unlikely that a system installed version of @code{autoconf} (e.g.,
> -@file{/usr/bin/autoconf}) is correct.
> +same version.

What is meant by ``the same version''? same as what?

> Currently this is 2.59.

Please remove this sentence.  "Currently" will become obsolete very
quickly, and has no real value here.  If you want to be friendly, you
could show the fragment of `configure' where one sees the version, and
state that in this fragment the version is so-and-so.

Thanks.

Re: RFA: fix gdbint.info autoconf version

[Douglas Evans]

On Nov 26, 2007 8:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:16:52 -0800
> > From: "Douglas Evans" <dje@google.com>
> >
> > How about this?
>
> Okay, but for these two minor issues:
>
> >  Check the @code{autoconf} version carefully.  You want to be using the
> > -version taken from the @file{binutils} snapshot directory, which can be
> > -found at @uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/}. It is very
> > -unlikely that a system installed version of @code{autoconf} (e.g.,
> > -@file{/usr/bin/autoconf}) is correct.
> > +same version.
>
> What is meant by ``the same version''? same as what?
>
> > Currently this is 2.59.
>
> Please remove this sentence.  "Currently" will become obsolete very
> quickly, and has no real value here.  If you want to be friendly, you
> could show the fragment of `configure' where one sees the version, and
> state that in this fragment the version is so-and-so.
>
> Thanks.

Thanks.  How's this?

2007-11-28  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>

        * gdbint.texinfo (Create a release): Fix docs on what version
        of autoconf to use.

Index: gdbint.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.275
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.275 gdbint.texinfo
--- gdbint.texinfo      15 Nov 2007 06:14:26 -0000      1.275
+++ gdbint.texinfo      28 Nov 2007 18:43:48 -0000
@@ -6289,11 +6289,18 @@ Notes:

 @itemize @bullet
 @item
-Check the @code{autoconf} version carefully.  You want to be using the
-version taken from the @file{binutils} snapshot directory, which can be
-found at @uref{ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/}. It is very
-unlikely that a system installed version of @code{autoconf} (e.g.,
-@file{/usr/bin/autoconf}) is correct.
+Check the @code{autoconf} version carefully.  You want to use the same version
+that was previously used.  See the top of @file{configure} to see what version
+generated it.  In this example the version is 2.59.
+
+@smallexample
+bash$ head -3 configure
+#! /bin/sh
+# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.
+@end smallexample
+
+Autoconf can be obtained from @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/autoconf/}.
 @end itemize

 @subsubheading Check out the relevant modules:

Re: RFA: fix gdbint.info autoconf version

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:46:09 -0800
> From: "Douglas Evans" <dje@google.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Thanks.  How's this?

Okay with me.  Thanks.

> +generated it.  In this example the version is 2.59.

Please use a colon after 2.59, not a period.