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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Christophe Lyon via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Cc: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib: Add autoregen.py
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:23:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyqlxqwc.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240419090903.2080043-1-christophe.lyon@linaro.org> (Christophe Lyon via Gdb's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:09:03 +0000")

>>>>> Christophe Lyon via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

> This script is a copy of the current script used by Sourceware's
> autoregen buildbots.

> It is intended as a helper to regenerate files managed by autotools
> (autoconf, automake, aclocal, ....), as well as the toplevel
> Makefile.in which is created by autogen.

> Other files can be updated when using maintainer-mode, but this is not
> covered by this script.

Thanks for working on this.

> +# these directories are known to be re-generatable with a simple autoreconf
> +# without special -I flags

Can other directories be updated to this same standard?  If not, why
not?  I'm somewhat uncomfortable with the number of special cases in
this script.

I was hoping it would be more like:

top level -> autogen + autoconf
anywhere else with configure.{ac,in} -> autoreconf

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-19 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-19  9:09 Christophe Lyon
2024-04-19 16:23 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2024-04-19 17:51   ` Simon Marchi
2024-04-30 12:45     ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-30 17:17       ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-30 18:00         ` Simon Marchi
2024-04-30 22:12           ` Tom Tromey
2024-04-19 22:59 ` Sam James
2024-04-30 12:50   ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-30 17:59     ` Simon Marchi

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