Re: Patches submission policy change

["Richard Earnshaw \(lists\) via Gdb" <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On 03/04/2024 14:23, Christophe Lyon via Gcc wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 14:59, Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>> Another possible issue which may be better now than in years past
>> is that the versions of autoconf/automake required often had to be
>> installed by hand. I think newlib has gotten better but before the
>> rework on its Makefile/configure, I had a special install of autotools
>> which precisely matched what it required.
>>
>> And that led to very few people being able to successfully regenerate.
>>
>> Is that avoidable?
>>
>> OTOH the set of people touching these files may be small enough that
>> pain isn't an issue.
>>
> 
> For binutils/gcc/gdb we still have to use specific versions which are
> generally not the distro's ones.

That's because at least some distros modify autoconf to their own taste/needs, so that it does not generate the same output as the officially released version.  Furthermore, they provide no mechanism to make their version revert back to the original behaviour.

R.