From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21375 invoked by alias); 6 May 2015 15:56:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 21354 invoked by uid 89); 6 May 2015 15:56:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 3 recipients X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 May 2015 15:56:06 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Yq1g0-0001Xx-1K from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Wed, 06 May 2015 08:56:00 -0700 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (137.202.0.76) by SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com (137.202.0.104) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.224.2; Wed, 6 May 2015 16:55:58 +0100 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Yq1fx-0006YD-9b; Wed, 06 May 2015 15:55:57 +0000 Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 15:56:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Michael Haubenwallner CC: Paolo Bonzini , DJ Delorie , Nathanael Nerode , Alexandre Oliva , Ralf Wildenhues , Jan-Benedict Glaw , GCC Patches , Bernd Edlinger , Janne Blomqvist , Kai Tietz Subject: Re: [patch 1/28] top-level: Use automake-1.11.6 In-Reply-To: <5549D5F1.50308@ssi-schaefer.com> Message-ID: References: <5548E9C3.1090408@ssi-schaefer.com> <5549D5F1.50308@ssi-schaefer.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00478.txt.bz2 On Wed, 6 May 2015, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Am 2015-05-05 um 18:03 schrieb Michael Haubenwallner: > > Now that gcc-5 is out, what about an automake-1.11.6 update for gcc-6? > > Patch for top-level files. I don't think this top-level patch is a good idea. These are *not* generated files, they're scripts imported verbatim from the relevant upstream repositories (not releases). Any change should simply be importing the latest upstream version. Updating the version of automake used should solely be able changing files that are generated, not copied, by automake (e.g. Makefile.in generated from Makefile.am) - plus of course documenting the new automake version in install.texi. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com