From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
To: ams@gnu.org
Cc: iant@google.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, 11034@debbugs.gnu.org,
gdb@sourceware.org, automake@gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org,
joseph@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F76D8F2.8050804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1SDuIY-0004aQ-0U@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hi Alfred.
On 03/31/2012 11:08 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> - Have them distributed (automake's default). This means that
> they will be build in the srcdir, not in the builddir: of
> course, this only affects the maintainer, since for a user that
> builds the package from a tarball those files should *not* be
> rebuilt, hence there is no problem even if the user's srcdir is
> read-only.
>
> This has always been the right way to do things.
>
> - Don't distribute the generated info files. [...] In this
> case, the user will have to to have the 'makeinfo' program
> available to build them.
>
> Please don't do this, it causes all kinds of headaches, like the small
> fact that makeinfo will now be required to bootstrap.
>
Note there's nothing I'm planning to do, nor I should do, in this regard:
the two setups described above are both already supported by the current
automake implementation (but the last one is not encouraged, even though
it makes perfect sense in some *rare* situations). I was just pointing
out that you have to choose one of these setups -- so, if you want to
distribute info files, you must accept to have them build in the srcdir.
Regards,
Stefano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-31 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-28 10:05 Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-28 11:25 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-03-28 12:20 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-28 12:29 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-03-28 13:02 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-28 23:43 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-03-31 8:30 ` bug#11034: " Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-31 9:08 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-03-31 10:14 ` Stefano Lattarini [this message]
2012-04-04 13:18 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-04-05 12:04 ` Stefano Lattarini
[not found] ` <4F76D8F2.8050804__46768.5595191599$1333188914$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2012-04-02 14:26 ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 15:04 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-02 15:17 ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 15:30 ` Stefano Lattarini
[not found] ` <4F79C5F2.2020807__46832.8654104427$1333380662$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2012-04-02 19:37 ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 19:51 ` Stefano Lattarini
[not found] ` <4F7A0341.9050305__49963.8538728051$1333396325$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2012-04-02 20:19 ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-02 20:50 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-02 21:10 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-03 20:04 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 20:05 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 20:29 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 20:40 ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-04 7:43 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-03 21:08 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2012-04-03 21:40 ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-03 23:53 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-04 7:47 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-04-04 9:03 ` Pedro Alves
2012-04-03 8:23 ` Joern Rennecke
2012-03-31 11:39 ` Stefano Lattarini
2012-03-31 16:42 ` bug#11034: " Stefano Lattarini
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