Status of gcc/intl and src/intl?

Status of gcc/intl and src/intl?

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Hi Zack,

I saw your message about an intl/ update:

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-07/msg00032.html

Here's my story.  Gdb has a build problem, PR gdb/857, which is about
intl/Makefile.in and the lack of a few files in the 'distclean' rule.  I
started working on this and I noticed that gcc/intl is a lot newer than
src/intl.

My plan is to add a few lines of kludgery to the top level src-release
file and not touch src/intl/Makefile.in at all, on the grounds that
src/intl is about to get a big upgrade soon anyways.  The specific
kludgery is a couple of lines like 'rm -f intl/config.cache' and 'rm -f
intl/stamp-h'.  I think this will be benign if an upgrade happens.

I just wanna make sure that my plan is okay in light of whatever's
going on with src/intl these days.  Can you comment on the status
of that?

Thanks,

Michael C

Re: Status of gcc/intl and src/intl?

[Zack Weinberg]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:

> Hi Zack,
>
> I saw your message about an intl/ update:
>
>   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-07/msg00032.html
>
> Here's my story.  Gdb has a build problem, PR gdb/857, which is about
> intl/Makefile.in and the lack of a few files in the 'distclean' rule.  I
> started working on this and I noticed that gcc/intl is a lot newer than
> src/intl.

Yeah.  Updating src/intl to match gcc/intl is on my list but I am not
going to get to it soon.

> My plan is to add a few lines of kludgery to the top level src-release
> file and not touch src/intl/Makefile.in at all, on the grounds that
> src/intl is about to get a big upgrade soon anyways.  The specific
> kludgery is a couple of lines like 'rm -f intl/config.cache' and 'rm -f
> intl/stamp-h'.  I think this will be benign if an upgrade happens.

I'm not familiar with src-release so I have no idea whether this will
be a problem.  What will happen eventually is, gcc/intl will be copied
over to src/intl, and everyone's configure scripts will be modified to
match.  Testing this change is a bit daunting, which is one of the
reasons I haven't gotten to it.  Help would be appreciated.  (Note I
am moving, so I may not respond to mail in a timely fashion for the
next week or so.)

zw

Re: Status of gcc/intl and src/intl?

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

zw> Yeah.  Updating src/intl to match gcc/intl is on my list but I am not
zw> going to get to it soon. ...
zw> What will happen eventually is, gcc/intl will be copied
zw> over to src/intl, and everyone's configure scripts will be modified to
zw> match.

Okay.  That sounds normal.  And it sounds like there is nothing hidden
that is going to leap up and bite me.

mec> My plan is to add a few lines of kludgery to the top level src-release
mec> file ...
zw> I'm not familiar with src-release so I have no idea whether this will
zw> be a problem.

I guess I can't ask you to know about src-release, so I will have to
be responsible for this bit.  I'll make sure that my bits in src-release
look compatible with the gcc/intl/Makefile.in as well as the current
src/intl/Makefile.in.

zw> Testing this change is a bit daunting, which is one of the
zw> reasons I haven't gotten to it.  Help would be appreciated.

I can do some garden variety cross builds, like gdb_mbuild.sh,
whenever the time is good for you.  I'm not much on exotic builds though.

Thanks,

Michael C