From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13125 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2002 00:47:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13118 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2002 00:47:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2002 00:47:54 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (vpn50-5.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.5]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3B0lhM14244; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:47:43 -0400 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 6A7F91BF80; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:47:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:47:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Cc: fnf@ninemoons.com, aoliva@redhat.com Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13? Message-ID: <20020411004742.GB2095@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, fnf@ninemoons.com, aoliva@redhat.com References: <200204110039.g3B0dCT03033@fred.ninemoons.com> <20020410204103.A3222@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020410204103.A3222@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00162.txt.bz2 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