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From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>
Cc: buildbot@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] autoregen.py: enable autoreconf for gcc, libdecnumber, libiberty, libobjc
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:53:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240418215315.GF25080@gnu.wildebeest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240417145033.2077525-1-christophe.lyon@linaro.org>

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 02:50:29PM +0000, Christophe Lyon wrote:
> Calling just 'autoreconf' works well for these subdirs despite the
> absence of Makefile.am: there's no real need to provide -I xxxx flags
> when calling aclocal, the generated files are the same.
> 
> It does make a difference for gcc and libobjc however: some warnings
> are printed by autoreconf, because additional .m4 files are parsed in
> a different order by plain 'aclocal' and 'aclocal -I xxx'.
> 
> We can accept that for the buildbot, for the sake of simplicity of
> this helper, but that may confuse users.

Yeah, it is a little confusing. But hard to notice given the large
number of warning in some of the other directories. Which is another
problem when people run it by hand.

Cheers,

Mark

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-18 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-17 14:50 Christophe Lyon
2024-04-17 14:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] autoregen.py: Move subdirs common to binutils-gdb and gcc Christophe Lyon
2024-04-17 14:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] autoregen.py: improve comment Christophe Lyon
2024-04-17 14:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] autoregen.py: libcpp can use autoreconf Christophe Lyon
2024-04-18 21:46   ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-19  8:20     ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-17 14:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] autoregen.py: Add introduction comment Christophe Lyon
2024-04-17 15:12   ` Simon Marchi
2024-04-18  9:59     ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-18 21:55       ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-19  8:22         ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-18 21:53 ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
2024-04-19  8:21   ` [PATCH 1/5] autoregen.py: enable autoreconf for gcc, libdecnumber, libiberty, libobjc Christophe Lyon

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