From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Cc: fnf@ninemoons.com, aoliva@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020411004742.GB2095@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020410204103.A3222@nevyn.them.org>
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:39:12PM -0700, Fred Fish wrote:
>>Is there some reason that gdb is using a 3 year old version of autoconf
>>instead of the latest official FSF release (2.53 I think)?
>
>Because all the rest of sourceware is. Every so often there are noises
>made about moving forward, but 2.53 and 2.13 aren't even mostly
>compatible in practice.
Alexandre Oliva was showing some interest in upgrading everything but
we've been keeping him too busy with "real work" for this to become
a reality.
I think he probably has a pretty good handle on what needs to be done,
though. I don't want to volunteer him for anything but maybe he'd be
interested in coordinating an upgrade effort for gcc.gnu.org and
sourceware.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-11 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 17:38 Fred Fish
2002-04-10 17:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-10 17:47 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2002-04-11 11:30 ` DJ Delorie
2002-04-11 15:00 ` Tom Tromey
2002-04-11 16:00 ` DJ Delorie
2002-04-12 3:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-12 8:19 ` DJ Delorie
2002-04-12 8:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-12 9:07 ` Andrew Cagney
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