From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17844 invoked by alias); 20 Mar 2006 23:14:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 17836 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Mar 2006 23:14:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:14:52 +0000 Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2KNCnje028002; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [17.201.26.217] (il0102b-dhcp167.apple.com [17.201.26.217]) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 7317911D; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:12:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <441F36F1.2010609@apple.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:12:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sje@cup.hp.com CC: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb autoconf question (gdb/nlm subdirectory) References: <200603202304.PAA13729@hpsje.cup.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200603202304.PAA13729@hpsje.cup.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 Steve Ellcey wrote: >I am looking at what version of autoconf parts of the src tree are using >because I want to update libtool and that requires that everything use a >autoconf 2.5 or later. > >Almost all of gdb is using autoconf 2.59, but the gdb/nlm directory, for >some reason, is still configured with autoconf 2.13. Does anyone know >why? > > Inertia, I'm sure. >I ran autoconf 2.59 on the current configure.in file in gdb/nlm and it >seemed to work OK. I didn't get any errors or warnings from autoconf. >The resulting configure file is quite different due to changes between >autoconf 2.13 and 2.59 but it looked OK and I didn't do anymore testing >because it looks like this subdirectory is only used by netware targets >and I don't have one of those. > >Does anyone know why the gdb/nlm subdirectory couldn't be changed to use >autoconf 2.59? > I think that if you could successfully build an nlmstub (which only requires a cross compiler I think?), that would be a good enough criterion for updating the autoconf requirement. Stan