Re: [PATCH 1/5] autoregen.py: enable autoreconf for gcc, libdecnumber, libiberty, libobjc

[Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 23:53, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Yes, it's good to have the buildbot to confirm it sees the same
warnings as people see when running the tools by hand.

And I agree that these warnings should be fixed, but that's another problem :-)

Thanks,

Christophe

> Cheers,
>
> Mark