From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5798 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2004 13:23:54 -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 5790 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2004 13:23:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 30 Jul 2004 13:23:53 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6UDNre3023572 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:23:53 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6UDNqa31506; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:23:52 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B242B9D; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:23:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <410A4BE4.5000306@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:26:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [6.3] Drop xm-*.h from GDB - move to pure autoconf References: <410990A0.9040108@gnu.org> <1659-Fri30Jul2004143003+0300-eliz@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <1659-Fri30Jul2004143003+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00371.txt.bz2 >>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:04:48 -0400 >>> From: Andrew Cagney >>> >>> 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