From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17649 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2009 17:51:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 17632 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Aug 2009 17:51:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_83,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:51:36 +0000 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2009 17:51:32 -0000 Received: from xdsl-87-78-232-50.netcologne.de (EHLO localhost.localdomain) [87.78.232.50] by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2009 19:51:32 +0200 Received: from ralf by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfdgP-00057F-FR; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:50:17 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:17:00 -0000 From: Ralf Wildenhues To: binutils@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey , Dave Korn , "Joseph S. Myers" Subject: updating autotools in the rest of src (was: [PATCH 4/N] The big bump) Message-ID: <20090824175017.GB19632@gmx.de> References: <4A86E723.3000602@gmail.com> <20090818191404.GB30961__32944.9385325008$1250622877$gmane$org@gmx.de> <20090824165550.GB32267@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090824165550.GB32267@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-08/txt/msg00443.txt.bz2 [ Cc: trimmed ] Hello Christopher, * Christopher Faylor wrote on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:55:50PM CEST: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:57:19PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: > >Ralf> This patch series is almost ready to go otherwise (expect to be able to > >Ralf> commit this weekend), and it'd be sad to see it hostage of the lesser > >Ralf> tightly maintained part of the tree. > > > >FWIW, I tend to agree. I know this sort of change is very difficult to > >get in and I think it would be worthwhile to bend the rules a little to > >make it simpler for you. > > I mainly agree but I'd like to know exactly what the "lesser tightly > maintained part" means since that is a judgement call rather than an > objective determination. Certainly. I did not intend to let it have any kind of definite meaning, much less so a statement about the maintenance quality that the various parts of the src tree are kept under. *Just* that I asked for permission to get that part in that I had done. And for me, this transition was greatly helped by someone kindly providing public git mirrors of the GCC and of the binutils+gdb trees, which is exactly the set of files I worked on so far. Are there similar trees for the rest of src? Also, such a transition is made a lot easier when all makefiles contain rebuild rules for all autotool-generated files (it's fine to have them enabled only when --enable-maintainer-mode is passed). I intend to work on the rest of the tree, and DaveK offered to help with winsup. If you are experiencing any breakage due to the transition in parts of the tree that haven't been updated yet, please let me know about it. Cheers, Ralf