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From: Eric Gallager <egall@gwmail.gwu.edu>
To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org,
	 gdb-patches@sourceware.org, 3246251196ryan@gmail.com,
	 Iain Sandoe <iain@sandoe.co.uk>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>,
	 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@gcc.gnu.org>,
	 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
	Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: Enable top-level recursive 'autoreconf'
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:13:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMfHzOtKF9Y0862Oe82JJ90-pHHPyVnn3p9r3bxj5YK1j-oMEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0lq99m5.fsf@euler.schwinge.homeip.net>

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 6:43 AM Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On 2023-10-19T11:57:33+0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Okt 19 2023, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> >> On 2023-10-18T15:42:18+0100, R jd <3246251196ryan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I guess I can ask, why there is not a recursive approach for configuring
> >>> GCC. e.g. AC_SUBDIRS in the top level?
> >>
> >> ('AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS' you mean.)  You know, often it just takes someone to
> >> ask the right questions...  ;-)
> >>
> >> What do people think about the attached
> >> "Enable top-level recursive 'autoreconf'"?  Only lightly tested, so far.
> >
> > The top-level files are shared with binutils-gdb, which has a different
> > set of subdirs.
>
> Good point, thanks!  Fortunately, the failure mode for non-existing
> directories is non-fatal (skipped with 'subdirectory [...] not present'
> diagnostic); with my original "Enable top-level recursive 'autoreconf'"
> (also re-attached) applied to Binutils/GDB Git master branch, we get:
>
>     $ PATH=[...] autoreconf -v
>     autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>     autoreconf: running: aclocal
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory c++tools not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory fixincludes not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gcc not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gcc/m2 not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gnattools not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gotools not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory intl to autoreconf
>     autoreconf: Entering directory `intl'
>     [...]
>     autoreconf: Leaving directory `intl'
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory libada not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory libatomic not present
>     autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory libbacktrace to autoreconf
>     autoreconf: Entering directory `libbacktrace'
>     [...]
>
> So we could (a) simply list *all* directories in the shared top-level
> 'configure.ac', or (b) configure GCC vs. other projrcts via a non-shared
> file ('m4_include([config/AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.m4])' or similar -- is there
> an established procedure for non-shared top-level files)?  (I don't have
> a strong preference either way.)
>

I'd just like to note that I have GCC bug 103459 open about silencing
warnings from autoreconf:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103459
Although I guess in this case, they're just notices, and not warnings,
so it's probably okay. (-Werror doesn't turn them into errors, does
it?)

> It's just GCC and Binutils/GDB, or are the top-level files also shared
> with additional projects?
>
>
> Grüße
>  Thomas
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-19 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAPB2dxkMVi=ijhoOo7YVugVPAo3WeOvEpk_FvQMxU7F0BcP2Gw@mail.gmail.com>
2023-10-15 13:00 ` Hints on reconfiguring GCC Iain Sandoe
2023-10-18 12:55   ` Thomas Schwinge
2023-10-18 14:42     ` R jd
2023-10-19  9:30       ` Enable top-level recursive 'autoreconf' (was: Hints on reconfiguring GCC) Thomas Schwinge
2023-10-19  9:57         ` Enable top-level recursive 'autoreconf' Andreas Schwab
2023-10-19 10:42           ` Thomas Schwinge
2023-10-19 23:13             ` Eric Gallager [this message]
2023-10-30  1:31             ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2023-10-20  4:07         ` Alexandre Oliva

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