On 01/27/2012 09:23 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/27/2012 01:08 PM, NightStrike wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Ralf Corsepius >> <ralf.corsep...@rtems.org> wrote: >>>> - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been deprecated, >>>> and will be moved out of the automake core in the next major Automake >>>> release (1.12). >>> >>> Bummer - Please reconsider this and understand that politliness prohibits me >>> to furtherly comment on this. >> >> Seconded. > > Moving multilib files out of the core does not mean that it is being > permanently broken, it only means that you have to start pulling in the > contrib directory if you want to use multilib. That is, we're not > killing the feature entirely, we're only splitting it out of automake > proper into its own project, where it will hopefully get more attention > than what the current level it is getting while embedded in automake. > Re-read the list where we discussed this - gcc is doing a better > maintenance job of multilib support in the first place, so this move is > intended to point you towards the better-maintained source in the first > place. > Exactly. Thanks for the nice summarization.
On the top of that, the removal is planned for Automake 1.12, not in the 1.11.x series (you'll get only a warning there). Regards, Stefano
