From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 129727 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2015 12:06:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 129707 invoked by uid 89); 19 Mar 2015 12:06:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:06:36 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9BAD36E5; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qHQNNOiidodL; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC54D36E1; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A64F640EAD; Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:06:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Mike Frysinger Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] update automake version to 1.11.6 Message-ID: <20150319120631.GB4884@adacore.com> References: <20150311094134.GE9455@vapier> <1426310999-13103-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1426310999-13103-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00581.txt.bz2 > Debian stable (wheezy) and newer only have 1.11.6. > Ubuntu Trusty and newer only have 1.11.6. > Gentoo dropped <=1.11.5 2 years ago. > Fedora R17 was the last one to offer 1.11.x (it was 1.11.6). > Centos 7 doesn't offer any 1.11.x version. > OpenSUSE 12.2 was the last one to offer 1.11.x. > Arch Linux dropped 1.11.x 3 years ago. > Mageia 2 was the last one to offer 1.11.x. > > So anyone who readily has access to automake 1.11.[0-5] is using a two > year old distro that is no longer supported. Lets use 1.11.6 as it's > the only 1.11.x version that is easily available. > > 2015-03-14 Mike Frysinger > > * README-maintainer-mode: Update automake to 1.11.6. FWIW, I tend to avoid using the auto-tools already installed, because I don't know what patches they might contain. Those patches can result in small differences which inexplicably show up when you regenerate some files after making some modifications. That's why I rebuilt them all from source, and use them when regenerating files. All in all, I'm not against switching to 1.11.6 but we should then regenerate all affected files now, and I would prefer it if that was done using an unmodified release rather than one that might have been modified by the distro. -- Joel