Re: [PATCH 1/2] Bump to autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.1

Simon Marchi
2018-06-15T14:38:37Z

On 2018-06-15 10:22 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
>> And to avoid requiring multiple
>> builds of autoconf/automake, it was suggested that we bump the required
>> version of those tools for all binutils-gdb.
>
> Thanks very much for taking on this task.

Thanks for looking at it!

> You do not appear to have updated the AC_PREREQ macro statements in the
> various */configure.ac files. Is this intentional ?

No, it's an oversight. I have changed them locally.

> Also the config/override.m4 file still contains a hard coded requirement
> for autoconf 2.64 exactly.

Are you talking about this?

dnl Fix 2.64 cross compile detection for AVR and RTEMS
dnl by not trying to compile fopen.
m4_if(m4_defn([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [2.64],
[m4_foreach([_GCC_LANG], [C, C++, Fortran, Fortran 77],
[m4_define([_AC_LANG_IO_PROGRAM(]_GCC_LANG[)], m4_defn([AC_LANG_PROGRAM(]_GCC_LANG[)]))])])

If I understand correctly, this patched an Autoconf 2.64 issue? So you are
suggesting that we can remove it now?

> The patch did not include renamed *.texinfo files, although that was
> simple enough to fix.

I have included some (bfd, ld) but might have forgotten others. Can you
point me to the ones I have forgotten so I can fix it?

Thanks,

Simon