From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24639 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2012 13:18:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 24513 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Apr 2012 13:17:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,TW_IB 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, 04 Apr 2012 13:17:39 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1SFQ5h-0007Ru-GU from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:17:37 -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, 4 Apr 2012 14:17:35 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1SFQ5f-0006q5-0M; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:17:35 +0000 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:18:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Stefano Lattarini cc: ams@gnu.org, iant@google.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, 11034@debbugs.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org, automake@gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option In-Reply-To: <4F76D8F2.8050804@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4F72E239.9010404@gmail.com> <4F7301DD.7090401@gmail.com> <4F76C08E.6050707@gmail.com> <4F76D8F2.8050804@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: 2012-04/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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. The approach used in GCC, for example in the libquadmath directory, is a --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir configure option that is used when building a release tarball - so normally the files go in the build directory, but a special configuration is used to put them in the source directory only when building releases. (This does not involve the "cygnus" option.) I think support for that seems more generically useful (and it makes sense to me for automake to look at features used in other packages' configure/build systems, that aren't inherently specific to those packages, and try to provide generic versions of them). The Binutils/GDB release tarball building process is substantially different and I'm not familiar with it. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com