On 14 Sep 2021 00:54, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 13.09.2021 um 16:13 schrieb Mike Frysinger: > > On 13 Sep 2021 12:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Sep 9 17:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> The .in name has been deprecated for a long time in favor of .ac. > > >> ACK. Are you going to regen afterwards? > > > that should be a nop as the filename input shouldn't affect the output. > > i confirmed on one or two dirs. > > The name of configure.{in|ac} is supposed to show up in just about every > Makefile.in. The maintainer rules to update configure rely on that. > Automake-generated Makefile.in pick up this change automatically. thanks for pointing this out. i sent a patch for it. > libgloss doesn't use automake, so there you would have to do all this by > hand. Or keep on not doing it at all: at the moment there are no such > maintainer-specific rules in the libgloss Makefile.in except in > libgloss/wince, which does use automake. the wince dir is running ancient automake-1.4 still. the rest of newlib is at least up on automake-1.11, but even that should get moved to 1.15 like the rest of the projects. but that's prob another yak shave i'm not in the mood to tackle. > > i agree that we should add > > a macro to enforce a specific autoconf version and regen everything with > > that :). > > No need to add one ;-). That's precisely what config/override.m4 > already does. > > The entire newlib tree relies quite heavily on features that have been > dropped from autoconf a _long_ time ago. The version it requires is 2.64 > from the year 2008. Getting all that resolved takes quite a bit more > effort than just renaming files and dropping the explicit restriction. > Every single Makefile.am and configure.ac has to be modified to remove > things like the cygnus mode option to automake, or the outdated use of > INCLUDES instead of AM_CPPFLAGS. there are large variety of autoconf versions in use in the tree :(. $ find newlib/ libgloss/ -name configure -exec sed -n '/Generated by GNU Autoconf/p' {} + | sort | uniq -c 1 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. 26 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. 6 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.63. 2 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.64. 2 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.66. 11 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68. 1 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68 for libepiphany 0.0.1. 1 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68 for libgloss LIBGLOSS_VERSION. 1 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68 for libor1k 0.0.1. 2 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68 for newlib 2.5.0. 112 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68 for newlib 4.1.0. 3 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. -mike