Re: top level: make more dependencies explicit

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@doctormoo.dyndns.org>]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:45:40PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:09:22PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >>Nathanael,
> >>
> >>FYI, I'm about to revert this change:
> >>
> >>2002-09-25  Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
> >>
> >>        * Makefile.tpl: Make subsituted variables more autoconfy.
> >>        * Makefile.in: Regenerate.
> >>        * configure: Make seds more autoconfy.
> >>
> >>It breaks both the GDB and BINUITLS snapshot processes.  Details to 
> >>follow, however, suggest a short pause.
> >
> >Uh... yuck.
> >
> >Are there some details on the GDB and BINUTILS snapshot processes so that
> >I can fix *them*?  This change is going to happen eventually, even if
> >it's reverted for now; the Makefile changes will be necessary for
> >autoonfiscation.
> >
> >Wait, let me look at Makefile.in...
> >
> >Ewwwww.  The taz rules use Makefile.in *as a Makefile*. 
> >That's the root of the problem, isn't it?  Incidentally, that's
> >disgusting. :-)  
> 
> Well I think ``SHELL = @config_shell@'' is ugly :-)  Why can't the 
> configury code edit ``s/^SHELL =.*/SHELL = $.../''.
If that line is actually the only problem-causing one, I can live without
changing it until autoconfiscation time.  It's the mess of other ones.
:-P

> The mechanism is very old (it pre-dates me as GDB release engineer). 
> Changing it is going to involve updates to many things - snapshot 
> scripts, release process doco, .... so won't happen overnight.

Mmmm.  I'm going to start rewriting it now. >:-=

--Nathanael