From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24483 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2003 21:05:55 -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 24441 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 21:05:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.131) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2003 21:05:54 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F932B63; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:05:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3EE4F6AD.7060300@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 21:05:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zack Weinberg Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Updating to Autoconf 2.5x References: <87of17t2j4.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00117.txt.bz2 > As you all know, the configure scripts for GCC, GDB, and binutils must > be generated with autoconf 2.13. GDB and BINUTILS use autoconf 000227 and not 2.13. > thoroughly obsolete, to the point where recent releases of popular > free operating systems may not ship it at all. It is thus becoming > increasingly difficult to maintain these scripts. Furthermore, using > this old version of autoconf forces us to continue using old versions > of automake and libtool as well. At the recent GCC summit it was > agreed that we I guess the royal ``we'' here is GCC? Fortunatly GDB (binutils?) also see a need to get off the current autoconf and as such, I personally welcome this move. How does nathaniel and dj's work fit into this - its kind of a logical next step. > need to make a concerted effort and migrate to autoconf > 2.5x. Exactly how we're going to do that, however, has not yet been > decided. > > I have created a mailing list for discussing this issue in detail, > making plans, and implementing them. All interested parties are > invited to subscribe. I don't intend this to be a long-lived list; > I hope we can get this conversion done in under a month. > > List address: autoconf-conversion@codesourcery.com > Subscribe: autoconf-conversion-subscribe@codesourcery.com (ezmlm) > Archives: http://www.codesourcery.com/archives/autoconf-conversion/maillist.html I think it would be better if this list was hosted, and made part of gcc.gnu.org. Andrew