From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29670 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2012 10:14:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 29520 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Mar 2012 10:14:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-wg0-f43.google.com) (74.125.82.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:14:22 +0000 Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so1000064wgb.12 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.73.143 with SMTP id l15mr5233306wiv.11.1333188861095; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [79.10.95.134] (host134-95-dynamic.10-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it. [79.10.95.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j3sm23628105wiw.1.2012.03.31.03.14.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F76D8F2.8050804@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:14:00 -0000 From: Stefano Lattarini MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ams@gnu.org CC: iant@google.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, 11034@debbugs.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org, automake@gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, joseph@codesourcery.com Subject: Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option References: <4F72E239.9010404@gmail.com> <4F7301DD.7090401@gmail.com> <4F76C08E.6050707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: 2012-03/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 Hi Alfred. On 03/31/2012 11:08 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > - Have them distributed (automake's default). This means that > they will be build in the srcdir, not in the builddir: of > course, this only affects the maintainer, since for a user that > builds the package from a tarball those files should *not* be > rebuilt, hence there is no problem even if the user's srcdir is > read-only. > > This has always been the right way to do things. > > - Don't distribute the generated info files. [...] In this > case, the user will have to to have the 'makeinfo' program > available to build them. > > Please don't do this, it causes all kinds of headaches, like the small > fact that makeinfo will now be required to bootstrap. > Note there's nothing I'm planning to do, nor I should do, in this regard: the two setups described above are both already supported by the current automake implementation (but the last one is not encouraged, even though it makes perfect sense in some *rare* situations). I was just pointing out that you have to choose one of these setups -- so, if you want to distribute info files, you must accept to have them build in the srcdir. Regards, Stefano