From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8562 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2003 03:59:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8545 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2003 03:59:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Sep 2003 03:59:14 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.22 #1 (Debian)) id 19vqhh-0002eH-AL; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 23:59:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 03:59:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, dj@redhat.com Subject: Re: [toplevel] Gas install name problem from autoconf 2.5x Message-ID: <20030907035909.GA10111@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Alexandre Oliva , binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, dj@redhat.com References: <20030903041031.GA29143@nevyn.them.org> <20030903144928.GA7255@nevyn.them.org> <200309031531.h83FV7w03522@greed.delorie.com> <20030903165610.GA25603@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:40:40AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Sep 3, 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > >> The new scheme is to specify --build instead. $host defaults to > >> $build. > > > Unfortunately I'm not sure that this works with older versions of > > autoconf. In fact I'm pretty sure that it doesn't. > > It doesn't. You (toplev) have to know what (subdir's) autoconf you're > talking to. > > > I think that, as you said, we do not have any choice. The alternative > > is forking autoconf to reverse the decision, and I certainly don't > > want to do that. > > I think the autoconf decision was sound (although I disliked it > because I could see the amount of disruption it would cause), but it's > done, so we'll have to choose a date to call flag day. In the mean time, how about a different solution? I would like to explicitly pass --program-transform-name from the toplevel to subdirectories, when configure implicitly generates it. How does that sound? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer