From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm1-x32d.google.com (mail-wm1-x32d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::32d]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4AC5C3858C32 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2024 09:36:17 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 4AC5C3858C32 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=baylibre.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=baylibre.com ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v1.0.0 sourceware.org 4AC5C3858C32 Authentication-Results: server2.sourceware.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::32d ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1709544979; cv=none; b=MqC4OqiIvKd1D3ReSldS1Oqyc81+G2DlcUdGOO938ZmBcdjbJ2htzZmt5adjpaO2vzv73aVjBNvolS+YNj1yzqNh8lxDLTa2FENlJ1+nBp5kUQUCBL9MPb4N4ro3sAHa2YzhjghZl7ZcvXJQ3aQh45ZT1md+cNyJM5Q6xK1vvbU= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1709544979; c=relaxed/simple; bh=CYsegoK1Y1wXzQVF1XdAoE+A4OvJXiqimuSeCCI8EMI=; h=DKIM-Signature:From:To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=YQuVmDukHYPwn1gywyMBNZqSpdmh4+SwMrU+MNqJlK0JpVhytaib3O6NwNPO+7aBOnjLAyMqgCHBo8nvXZy7btUF331CSAJppvd5mJtVk+UtL0NjMqRz3cTzq24mtnxJlG0+O0YxMn7pwKhRwF3ZN52PwCl44kGRj3ZEmo3eKqg= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; server2.sourceware.org Received: by mail-wm1-x32d.google.com with SMTP id 5b1f17b1804b1-412dda84216so8798295e9.3 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:36:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=baylibre-com.20230601.gappssmtp.com; s=20230601; t=1709544976; x=1710149776; darn=sourceware.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:message-id:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:subject:cc:to:from:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=CYsegoK1Y1wXzQVF1XdAoE+A4OvJXiqimuSeCCI8EMI=; b=z5BNXBAmSZa/mDK1d8fhFYwqLH1NJqneeMQPgcggUvR7dFKKz0XAU8YBJQTby3PFv/ BEuIysn1Eyh0ZwsWjA9642LdJTcTDCmCLSvJEuohKZcXdw9D1dHNuWltsJYEb5XK6uC5 icJhTx/fhB3UG9rXULhxcaH0OjMZc6TGO1e0fpz9VXaMu1x40WPZoaS/kD11Fp0l2hIm OPrAxWF7CLB1zReBgjJNIwZ08dtFPrZcGz4RkJp1DCgmHBzX9KrKrORLrzm7UyCIK1uy dZ9UV4eH/cPU+LNs7ZtcGywOEtjSGBh/7UXuVTmMBXxuwnHAhn4G/FF3cyPLUihlIFsh xVCw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1709544976; x=1710149776; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:message-id:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:subject:cc:to:from:x-gm-message-state:from :to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=CYsegoK1Y1wXzQVF1XdAoE+A4OvJXiqimuSeCCI8EMI=; b=daMTTGDvWbTDcabqZ5LOvjDqrr+CDhMXYi4hOdugUGXwm1GI7iVBCqEa2zj1lhS4WJ W83Et1soP2GPJ3LM/MLxW2N3H64DCslszAVDSKnzmv8wAQrSEYCGKiIy14ypW4sT/PK+ KjeoGshKvEIMwk2UlrV5vFxUv9w/6aBkAEwRXL+QTdwOqI3yADfhi6zLZYlLGuc5CiN6 8GdEGTBcsqK4nqw023NPKm9uK1GKWtH/8puwcdZmnMotZqAiEfX+CfTWI6F9zgdviFjx 38GiKBv9/+iFlUhT+n0c2EgL+UwOhf+F+emIsE+GEJipRx2vYl1i+Va2jERw/Z/D+qC6 zk8w== X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AJvYcCXp0tjmgEK50sh8eIJTw29sJDv1+X84moIJcNT6Yn18j9Cv2cTM7n+bwSeQ4EU2MD7WOkup610aJTeTwiPaWVWKpPRUXeMrW3TPoA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YzWtz2l269erESGY0HNowgOLDlHztUdNS3XMQ0VkVPQ0Zo2OgzD ISgrIVWk9gvWfgtBWnBucBdcis1nIa9bb++4tFWF7Ln5BckeZzoTGPXYujuMIqY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IGamOTUdZIImQ7/B6sTJGZL6w55Uzs3Pr3lXC3g+gGTucf01ZfRhKAjH768oTzTxGZYDEu6jA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:4446:b0:412:8d27:b757 with SMTP id v6-20020a05600c444600b004128d27b757mr5926379wmn.37.1709544976008; Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:36:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from euler.schwinge.homeip.net (p200300c8b70336000b0134869109dcb1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:c8:b703:3600:b01:3486:9109:dcb1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id fm23-20020a05600c0c1700b00412e11557b9sm3707003wmb.23.2024.03.04.01.36.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:36:15 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Schwinge To: Sam James , Mark Wielaard Cc: Christophe Lyon , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, David Malcolm , arsen@gentoo.org, Alexandre Oliva Subject: Re: Help needed with maintainer-mode In-Reply-To: <87v862260i.fsf@gentoo.org> References: <20240229110039.GB18580@gnu.wildebeest.org> <72dff8ae4cc6b56208b7e7f93676debcaba900d4.camel@klomp.org> <20240303211541.GK13156@gnu.wildebeest.org> <87v862260i.fsf@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.29.3+94~g74c3f1b (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/29.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:36:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87le6y7303.fsf@euler.schwinge.ddns.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hi! On 2024-03-04T00:30:05+0000, Sam James wrote: > Mark Wielaard writes: >> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 05:32:15PM +0100, Christophe Lyon wrote: >>> [...], I read >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Regenerating_GCC_Configuration >>> which basically says "run autoreconf in every dir where there is a >>> configure script" >>> but this is not exactly what autoregen.py is doing. IIRC it is based >>> on a script from Martin Liska, do you know/remember why it follows a >>> different process? >> >> CCing Sam and Arsen who helped refine the autoregen.py script, who >> might remember more details. We wanted a script that worked for both >> gcc and binutils-gdb. And as far as I know autoreconf simply didn't >> work in all directories. We also needed to skip some directories that >> did contain a configure script, but that were imported (gotools, >> readline, minizip). > > What we really need to do is, for a start, land tschwinge/aoliva's patche= s [0] > for AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. Let me allocate some time this week to get that one completed. > Right now, the current situation is janky and it's nowhere near > idiomatic autotools usage. It is not a comfortable experience > interacting with it even as someone who is familiar and happy with using > autotools otherwise. > > I didn't yet play with maintainer-mode myself but I also didn't see much > point given I knew of more fundamental problems like this. > > [0] https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/oril72c4yh.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla= .org/ Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fe Thomas