From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17335 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2002 10:14:53 -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 17328 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2002 10:14:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (213.95.15.193) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Apr 2002 10:14:51 -0000 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7D11E1E4; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:14:50 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f To: DJ Delorie Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13? References: <200204110039.g3B0dCT03033@fred.ninemoons.com> <87lmbtoq9r.fsf@creche.redhat.com> X-Yow: Is it clean in other dimensions? From: Andreas Schwab Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:14:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (DJ Delorie's message of "11 Apr 2002 18:46:26 -0400 ") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 DJ Delorie writes: |> Tom Tromey writes: |> > Doing it will let us use a newer automake, which in turn will let us |> > remove a bunch of hacks from various Makefile.am's. Also it will mean |> > that libgcj won't need to continue using its own hacked automake. The |> > big problem is just that nobody with the expertise has the time (or |> > maybe interest :-). |> |> Have they fixed the problem with old config.caches in 2.5 yet? What's wrong with "rm config.cache"? autoconf 2.50+ does not even create a config.cache by default any more. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."