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From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>,
	Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>,
	klee@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
	binutils@sources.redhat.com, newlib@sources.redhat.com,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions.
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0nkjct1.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021205222945.GX27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> I'm concerned that this proposal may be raising the bar too high.
> How long has it been since some poor fool^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrave soul
> attempted to modernize binutils configury?

It's only been a bit over five years since I reworked binutils
configury to use automake and libtool.

I guess it was about two years before that that Ken Raeburn and I
changed the binutils to use autoconf.

I'm sure I don't know why autoconf 2.5 is not called autoconf 3.
Still, switching to autoconf 2.5 is surely a smaller change than
either of those.

It should be easy enough to extend AC_PREREQ a bit to make sure that
people use the correct version of autoconf for the directory in
question.

Perhaps --enable-maintainer-mode could be extended to specify a PATH
to use to find the tools.

Ian


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-05 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-05 11:08 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-05 11:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05 13:31 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-05 14:36   ` Alan Modra
2002-12-05 14:56     ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2002-12-05 15:22       ` Alan Modra
2002-12-05 15:43         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2002-12-05 15:51           ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05 15:47         ` Mike Stump
2002-12-05 16:30           ` Alan Modra
2002-12-05 16:45             ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-08  2:49         ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05 14:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-12-06  6:45 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-08 10:53 ` Klee Dienes
2003-01-12 10:32 ` [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions (take 2) Klee Dienes
2003-01-12 16:14   ` Nathanael Nerode
2003-01-12 17:14   ` Zack Weinberg
2003-01-13  3:32     ` Klee Dienes
2003-01-13  7:31       ` Zack Weinberg
     [not found] <9A4230D6-1D26-11D7-BFCA-00039396EEB8@apple.com>
2003-01-12 13:22 ` [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions Alexandre Oliva
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-06  5:28 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-05 14:42 Joern Rennecke
2002-12-05 14:40 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-05 15:19 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-06 10:21   ` Tom Tromey
2002-12-07 13:06   ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-07 16:03     ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-09 19:16       ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-09 21:52         ` Geoff Keating
2002-12-08 13:11     ` Tom Tromey
2002-12-05 10:15 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-12-05 10:37 ` Klee Dienes
2002-11-13 10:32 [RFA/PATCH] Darwin fixes for ltconfig, ltcf-c.sh Klee Dienes
2002-12-04 22:04 ` [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions Klee Dienes
2002-12-05  5:26   ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-12-05 14:07     ` Alan Modra
2002-12-05  7:43   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05  8:22     ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05  9:01       ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05 12:55         ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05 13:03           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-05 13:13             ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05 13:16               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-05 13:08           ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05 13:18             ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05  8:28     ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-05  9:37       ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05  9:42         ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-05 10:28           ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05  9:31     ` H. J. Lu
2002-12-05  7:44   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-05  9:01     ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05  8:09   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-05  8:29     ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-05  8:35       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-05  8:37         ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-05  8:40         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-05  8:44           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-05  9:19             ` Elena Zannoni
2002-12-05  9:54             ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05 10:10               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-05 10:59               ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-06  5:52                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-05 10:59               ` Doug Evans
2002-12-05 12:11                 ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05 12:23                   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2002-12-05 14:29                     ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-06  5:34                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-06  7:25                   ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-06  8:06                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-06  8:47                       ` DJ Delorie
2002-12-05 13:59               ` Ben Elliston
2002-12-05 13:41                 ` Ben Elliston
2002-12-30 16:10   ` Alexandre Oliva

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