From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14342 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2011 07:44:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 14306 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Mar 2011 07:44:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pv0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-pv0-f169.google.com) (74.125.83.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:44:22 +0000 Received: by pvg4 with SMTP id 4so482317pvg.0 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.192.5 with SMTP id p5mr1703759wff.106.1301557461158; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yakj.usersys.redhat.com (93-34-210-217.ip51.fastwebnet.it [93.34.210.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x11sm1171189wfd.1.2011.03.31.00.44.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9430CF.8020809@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:44:00 -0000 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gcc.devel To: "Joseph S. Myers" CC: DJ Delorie , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org, newlib@sourceware.org Subject: Re: On the toplevel configure and build system References: <201103301534.p2UFYDTE010954@greed.delorie.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00207.txt.bz2 On 03/30/2011 05:54 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > Thanks. My inclination is to say that this should be considered an > independent tool in its own repository, as something not required in the > build of any of the other tools. More specifically, utils/mep and > utils/wince look like independent tools each of which would better go in > its own toplevel directory (mep-integrator, cesetup) (and would each go in > an independent repository based on the shared toplevel, since they use > libiberty), while utils/spu appears to have no toplevel dependencies and > so should be completely independent, possibly without toplevel support for > building it. Since utils/spu and utils/wince have no non-build-system > changes since 2000, I'd be inclined to say we should declare those two > subdirectories dead and run "cvs rm" on them - people wanting to resurrect > them can always extract the data from CVS later. (And I still think > utils/mep should move to its own toplevel directory.) No, these tools _are_ built after all. However, moving them to a new toplevel directory and getting rid of utils would be a good thing. Paolo