Re: [PATCH] contrib: Add autoregen.py

[Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 19:51, Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
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> On 2024-04-19 12:23, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>>> 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
>
> I wrote the initial version of the autoreconf support in this script,
> originally it only had gdb, gdbserver and gdbsupport.  But Christophe
> later added all the directories that currently work with a simple
> autoreconf.  At this point, I think it would make sense to flip the
> logic and list only the directories that don't work with a simple
> autoreconf, and then work on reducing that list to 0.
>

I've recently added a patch to the 'master' copy of this script which
now defaults to using autoreconf, it is much simpler.
And Simon just sent a couple of GCC patches to fix incorrectly generated files,
which should enable us to use autoreconf in more places.

Thanks,

Christophe


> Simon