From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98288 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2018 21:02:16 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 98252 invoked by uid 89); 24 Oct 2018 21:02:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*c:alternative X-HELO: mx.coeval.ca Received: from mx.coeval.ca (HELO mx.coeval.ca) (184.75.211.21) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:02:12 +0000 Received: from mail-oi1-f170.google.com (mail-oi1-f170.google.com [209.85.167.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.coeval.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 388C0436057 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi1-f170.google.com with SMTP id y81-v6so5283062oia.6 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:02:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <29a3af563c47950be0c741dca50c3432@polymtl.ca> In-Reply-To: <29a3af563c47950be0c741dca50c3432@polymtl.ca> Reply-To: joel@rtems.org From: Joel Sherrill Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to Run autoconf on sim/erc32 directory To: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-10/txt/msg00048.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:32 PM Simon Marchi wrote: > On 2018-10-24 14:47, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a patch I want to try on Cygwin but I don't seem to have the > > proper > > auto-fu to generate configure. > > > > Help on the auitoconf command appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > Hi Joel, > > I take it you have changed sim/erc32/configure.ac (or another file that > goes in making sim/erc32/configure) and you want to re-generate > sim/erc32/configure? In that case, you just need to go in the sim/erc32 > and run "autoconf" ("autoconf -f" may sometimes be useful if autoconf > doesn't realize some things have changed). > > You should use the same version of autoconf as the version that > generated the current configure. As you can see in the header, this is > autoconf 2.69: > > # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. > > Some Linux distributions have local patches to autoconf, which results > in spurious diffs when re-generating configure. If that happens, try to > build and use autoconf from upstream. > I decided to take a shot that Cygwin was the trouble. I moved the patch to Linux, ran autoconf and copied the configure back to Cygwin. My change worked fine. This only depended on autoconf 2.69 and the RTEMS version has no patches. Thank you. Patch coming shortly > > Thanks, > > Simon >