From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Joseph Myers via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Cc: "Simon Marchi" <simark@simark.ca>,
"Joseph Myers" <josmyers@redhat.com>,
"Tomasz Kłoczko" <kloczko.tomasz@gmail.com>,
"Sam James" <sam@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: gdb and ancient GNU autotools
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:42:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xy9vm61.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3af4dbe-3d7-c9c8-c549-c1263e3bd0b6@redhat.com> (Joseph Myers via Gdb's message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:33:09 +0000 (UTC)")
>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Myers via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:
Joseph> A reminder: mixing a libtool update into an autoconf/automake update would
Joseph> be a bad idea, a libtool update is likely a lot harder, since (a) the
Joseph> libtool version used is very old (reportedly based on upstream commit
Joseph> 2c9c38d8a12eb0a2ce7fe9c3862523026c3d5622)
I wonder whether we could get rid of libtool.
The host OS landscape is a lot less varied than when it was written.
Many of the problem Unix variants are dead now. Perhaps libtool doesn't
provide all that much value.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-27 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-24 16:28 Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-24 16:51 ` Sam James via Gdb
2024-02-24 17:15 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-24 17:21 ` Sam James via Gdb
2024-02-24 18:30 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-24 19:31 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-02-25 0:22 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-25 7:56 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-02-25 8:05 ` Eli Schwartz via Gdb
2024-02-25 10:40 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-02-25 21:19 ` Eli Schwartz via Gdb
2024-02-25 21:50 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-25 22:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-02-25 23:32 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-02-26 0:29 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-26 0:46 ` Eli Schwartz via Gdb
2024-02-26 0:55 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-26 11:44 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-02-26 12:13 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-26 0:26 ` Eli Schwartz via Gdb
2024-02-27 15:25 ` Tom Tromey
2024-02-27 16:37 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb
2024-02-27 17:33 ` Joseph Myers via Gdb
2024-02-27 17:42 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2024-02-27 20:44 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-27 20:57 ` Tomasz Kłoczko via Gdb
2024-02-27 20:59 ` Sam James via Gdb
2024-02-26 0:58 ` Andrew Pinski via Gdb
2024-02-27 15:27 ` Tom Tromey
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