From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
"newlib@sourceware.org" <newlib@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove automake option 'cygnus' from newlib
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:25:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7806a095-b45d-c0e4-a75a-24c1e0a3366f@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YbgvfIV7GGlKnkpw@vapier>
On 14/12/2021 05:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2021 13:20, Jon Turney wrote:
>> The 'cygnus' option was removed from automake 1.13 in 2012, so the
>> presence of this option prevents a later version of automake being used.
>>
>> Check-list of the effects of '--cygnus' from the automake 1.12
>> documentation, and steps taken (where possible) to preserve those
>> effects (See also this thread [1] for discussion on that):
>
> to help with bisection, maybe this should be split into at least 2 patches ?
> (1) turn on the new features but leave cygnus enabled.
> (2) remove the cygnus option.
> wdyt ?
Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
I suspect that of tje effects of '--cygnus' which correspond to automake
features (#1-#5), only #5 will result in a change to the generated
autotools files (and thus potentially be the cause of a bisectable
regression), but I guess I'll need to try it out to be sure :)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-13 13:20 Jon Turney
2021-12-13 13:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-12-14 5:45 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-12-14 20:25 ` Jon Turney [this message]
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