From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31424 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2003 23:01:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31195 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 23:01:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO egil.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2003 23:01:22 -0000 Received: from zack by egil.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19PVdZ-0002qW-00; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:01:13 -0700 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Updating to Autoconf 2.5x References: <87of17t2j4.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <3EE4F6AD.7060300@redhat.com> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 23:01:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3EE4F6AD.7060300@redhat.com> (Andrew Cagney's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:05:49 -0400") Message-ID: <87fzmiua86.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: >> As you all know, the configure scripts for GCC, GDB, and binutils must >> be generated with autoconf 2.13. > > GDB and BINUTILS use autoconf 000227 and not 2.13. I didn't know that; thanks for the clarification. >> At the recent GCC summit it was agreed that we > > I guess the royal ``we'' here is GCC? Quite a few binutils and GDB maintainers were present at the discussion I am referring to, and they agreed as well. > Fortunatly GDB (binutils?) also see a need to get off the current > autoconf and as such, I personally welcome this move. Glad to have you on board. > How does nathaniel and dj's work fit into this - its kind of a logical > next step. Good question. > I think it would be better if this list was hosted, and made part of > gcc.gnu.org. Feel free to set up a list on gcc.gnu.org; I do not have the access to do that. I felt that as a short-lived list, the precise hosting location did not much matter. zw