From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22708 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2003 17:15:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 22687 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 17:15:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 17:15:35 -0000 Received: from roscoe.constant.com (tooth.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.29]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C320800095; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:15:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:15:00 -0000 From: Benjamin Kosnik To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Cc: nickc@redhat.com, neroden@twcny.rr.com Subject: Re: Planning for the Autoconf 2.5x transition? Message-Id: <20030102111450.79ce1439.bkoz@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 > > 1. Make all directories have configure.in scripts which work > > correctly with *both* 2.13 and 2.5x, then switch over. >I would prefer this scheme. I think this way lies continued stalemate. I don't see how both can be made to work, and, if this cannot be accomplished (we have attempted this for libstdc++), I'd rather have things work sanely with autoconf 2.5.x. It is an incredible inconvenience for me to not be able to use the default autotools on RH 8 for libstdc++ work: because of this, I'm motivated to get this working for libstdc++ as soon as possible. I think a much saner approach is to take the target subdirs on a case by case basis. Are all the target libs able to auto-gen configure/Makefiles with the exact same autoconf/automake at the moment? That would surprise me. -benjamin