From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4397 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2002 22:54:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4321 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 22:54:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (63.201.54.26) by sources.redhat.com with QMTP; 5 Dec 2002 22:54:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 19123 invoked by uid 10); 5 Dec 2002 22:54:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 29493 invoked by uid 500); 5 Dec 2002 22:55:38 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: zack@codesourcery.com, neroden@twcny.rr.com, klee@apple.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, newlib@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, amodra@bigpond.net.au To: Alan Modra Cc: Zack Weinberg , Nathanael Nerode , 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. References: <20021205190728.GA11507@doctormoo> <87hedsi247.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <20021205222945.GX27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20021205222945.GX27956@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 Alan Modra 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