From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23643 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2012 12:29:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 23626 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Mar 2012 12:29:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:29:28 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1SCs0E-0001XT-Mz from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:29:26 -0700 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk ([172.16.63.104]) by EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:29:25 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1SCs0C-0003gl-Ck; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:29:24 +0000 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:29:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Stefano Lattarini cc: 11034@debbugs.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Automake List Subject: Re: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option In-Reply-To: <4F7301DD.7090401@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4F72E239.9010404@gmail.com> <4F7301DD.7090401@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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/msg00080.txt.bz2 On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > - texinfo.tex is not required if a Texinfo source file is specified. The > assumption is that the file will be supplied, but in a place that > Automake cannot find. This assumption is an artifact of how Cygnus > packages are typically bundled. texinfo.tex is in a known location, but only a single copy for GDB and binutils and a single copy for GCC rather than in each directory needing it. Is the approach used (for example) in libquadmath/Makefile.am TEXINFO_TEX = ../gcc/doc/include/texinfo.tex considered a suitable approach for this case? > - Certain tools will be searched for in the build tree as well as in the > user's PATH. These tools are runtest, expect, makeinfo and texi2dvi. I did previously suggest removing the existing support for building and using these tools in-tree , but there was pushback on that. I don't know, however, if it actually depends on anything built into automake. > - The check target doesn't depend on all. I'm not aware of a need for that. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com