From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7146 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2012 23:43:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 7129 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Mar 2012 23:43:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-pb0-f41.google.com) (209.85.160.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:43:07 +0000 Received: by pbcup15 with SMTP id up15so2725377pbc.0 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:43:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=KmLTumdXczbGxVewYKZHQFt1NZK44xUkimMcefU/vI0=; b=oMNur5J9DRN9vCr4NYWslUDmpYn4zlKc+4sABpUrRb+hc3BhO3DteByC8H6tfhevZI rQDU0/nbEYWCHd92PLwAcQxPa5RvtozfqdQZs5SYttDFRCJ8BDTIqvM+TS/p4hMHPDT0 3S7NjkRcqKtlFIjzrUa+QSzHrf2BwMM4yYFeJR+j4k/3UFg7L3pp36MHwf6yhNRv9oc/ 31P+sxcN5KMx5eXwDRXOYFgN65vAhknFk4sNwLx6ZS0D4pJCkXnmTR6vyB6C0KCe7Ihq c+HQoJ+j+86wnQCor0PGwsYfyxl7dgABrh8Ka7Wlp6BnlDbCz11SCm/BoEACA1wVnO++ ociw== Received: by 10.68.216.3 with SMTP id om3mr571246pbc.18.1332978186742; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.216.3 with SMTP id om3mr571191pbc.18.1332978186488; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coign.google.com ([65.50.220.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ko12sm3649197pbb.52.2012.03.28.16.43.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:43:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Stefano Lattarini Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" , 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 References: <4F72E239.9010404@gmail.com> <4F7301DD.7090401@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:43:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4F7301DD.7090401@gmail.com> (Stefano Lattarini's message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:19:41 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQni6fLPaydcX26Z7ed6ZjxVeeErNfHCoqRe+kl4zW30mLhl/W04rwAmFayNN8EkcB9KUqKUE0X39DGJebrgWw8gRDCiEtBXueGwTb8zhjJDxNHGYiwPfqmjN4yorJgmU1v//1YgdmzOcFKCSFbbnYGJF8tTo+kcCkeEHhRT9HT3BVerYSs= 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/msg00082.txt.bz2 Stefano Lattarini writes: >> (I think avoiding info documentation being built in the source directory, >> so that builds could use a non-writable source directory, may have been >> one part). >> > There is probably some hack to obtain this effect (it's tested in the testsuite > somewhere), but my opinion is that if you distribute the generated info files > you should also have them generated in the source directory, to avoid nasty > surprises (for a similar issue, involving yacc and lex, see automake bug#10852, > in particular messages > and ). It's important that it be possible to build with the sources on a read-only disk. It's useful to be able to include .info files in releases so that people can build the releases without having to have makeinfo installed. Ian