From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23590 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2007 20:45:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 23555 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Feb 2007 20:45:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:44:57 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l19KghPq014370; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:42:44 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l19KghCl031908; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:42:43 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l19KggpO032129; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:42:42 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6BD9D3783CF; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:30:57 -0700 (MST) To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , DJ Delorie , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, newlib@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59 References: <20070111225346.GA1335@nevyn.them.org> <20070207193352.GA13757@nevyn.them.org> <20070208222020.GA2267@nevyn.them.org> <200702082254.l18MsOuR028641@greed.delorie.com> <20070209151558.GA7193@nevyn.them.org> <20070209153841.GA12038@nevyn.them.org> <20070209161658.GA13966@nevyn.them.org> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00147.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej W Rozycki writes: Maciej> Sure -- I use a script like this for regenerating all the scripts: autoreconf ought to do a lot of the work for you. Though I don't recall whether it knows to read ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, which is necessary for proper operation... >> And yes, there are some troublesome changes - like, if you don't adjust >> your makefiles, you get warnings about ignoring datarootdir. Maciej> Indeed, though they are not fatal. Perhaps Makefile.in files Maciej> in the affected directories (Makefile.am are OK as Maciej> sufficiently new automake will deal with that) could get Maciej> updated beforehand? It should not hurt at all. I think automake 1.10 requires the new autoconf. So, Makefile.ins can't be updated first. Tom