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From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Question about autoreconf to regenerate configuration files
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:44:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yeq4u6sexvIAmfZc@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26fff1a3-7743-e0ce-f7a6-70b39a030118@embedded-brains.de>

On Jan 21 13:32, Matthew Joyce wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am working with Sebastian Huber on the previously-discussed thread-local
> objects configuration option. If I may, I'd like to ask a question about
> regenerating the configuration files.
> 
> I added a new source file which defines one of these tls objects in
> libc/errno/ and added the file to the LIB_SOURCES in errno/Makefile.am. I
> then ran autoreconf in the libc directory.
> 
> nm shows me that the new object is defined in the symbol table, but I have
> also unwittingly modified well over 100 files (numerous Makefile.in,
> aclocal.m4, and configure files).
> 
> I'd like to understand: Is this expected or desirable? Should I not be using
> autoreconf for this?

You should be able to do that, but maybe you used another autoconf
version than the one used to generate the files in the first place.
I wouldn't worry about that right now, especially while Mike is still
turning our autotools setup upside down.


Corinna


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-21 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-21 12:32 Matthew Joyce
2022-01-21 13:44 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2022-01-21 15:02 ` R. Diez
2022-01-21 15:37   ` Joel Sherrill
2022-01-21 16:09     ` R. Diez
2022-01-21 22:09       ` Mike Frysinger
2022-01-21 23:08         ` Joel Sherrill
2022-01-22 21:20         ` R. Diez
2022-01-23  0:17           ` Joel Sherrill
2022-01-23 16:57             ` R. Diez
2022-01-26 10:19               ` Mike Frysinger
2022-01-30 22:22                 ` R. Diez
2022-01-23  7:29           ` Mike Frysinger
2022-01-26 10:02         ` Mike Frysinger
2022-02-17  5:18           ` Mike Frysinger
2022-02-17  6:56             ` Sebastian Huber
2022-02-20  9:51             ` R. Diez

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