From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25535 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2008 17:09:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 25486 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Aug 2008 17:09:36 -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; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:09:02 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m77H8xBu016555 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:08:59 -0400 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 m77H8xfO032484; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:08:59 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-10-34.bos.redhat.com [10.16.10.34]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m77H8xXD012996; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:08:59 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 554A3378159; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:09:00 -0600 (MDT) To: Ralf Wildenhues Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: automatic dependency tracking References: <20080807054840.GA26651@ins.uni-bonn.de> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: Tom Tromey X-Attribution: Tom Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:09:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20080807054840.GA26651@ins.uni-bonn.de> (Ralf Wildenhues's message of "Thu\, 7 Aug 2008 07\:48\:41 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) 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: 2008-08/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: >> sinclude(../config/acx.m4) >> >> +dnl For dependency tracking macros. >> +sinclude([../config/depstand.m4]) Ralf> Why sinclude? Shouldn't aclocal fail if the file cannot be included? Ralf> (Just curious, really; I see this is done with other files, too.) Sorry, I think I was being obtuse here in my earlier reply. I have a vague recollection that there was some version of autoconf, in the distant past, where sinclude was the only way to do this kind of inclusion. Then, once this gets into the code, it tends to stick. So, I think this is probably just inertia and not something more obscure. Tom