From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [6.3] Drop xm-*.h from GDB - move to pure autoconf
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <410A4BE4.5000306@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1659-Fri30Jul2004143003+0300-eliz@gnu.org>
>>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:04:48 -0400
>>> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>>>
>>> At this stage, the only issue I know of blocking the xm file removal, is
>>> DOS file support. Both DJGPP and CYGWIN appear to have configury not
>>> yet handled by autoconf.
>
>
> ??? Could you spell out the problems?
>
> There are dozens of GNU projects, all of them using Autoconf (and also
> libtool, for that matter), that were ported to DJGPP by running the
> configure script with minimal changes (akin the config.sed script used
> by GDB). I'm not aware of any problems that would stop the show for
> you, but perhaps I'm missing something.
Right.
>>> - have DJGPP and CYGWIN use autoconf for DOS file support
>
>
> What do you mean by that? What ``DOS file support'' in GDB needs to
> be autoconfiscated?
Check the contents of config/i386/xm-{cygwin,djgpp}.h. Instead of being
detected by autoconf, those values are being hardwired. Easy to fix (I
just fixed HOST_FLOAT_FORMAT).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 7:01 Andrew Cagney
2004-07-30 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-30 14:26 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-07-30 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-05 20:10 ` Andrew Cagney
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