On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 6:43 AM Thomas Schwinge <tho...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On 2023-10-19T11:57:33+0200, Andreas Schwab <sch...@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Okt 19 2023, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> >> On 2023-10-18T15:42:18+0100, R jd <3246251196r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I guess I can ask, why there is not a recursive approach for configuring
> >>> GCC. e.g. AC_SUBDIRS in the top level?
> >>
> >> ('AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS' you mean.) You know, often it just takes someone to
> >> ask the right questions... ;-)
> >>
> >> What do people think about the attached
> >> "Enable top-level recursive 'autoreconf'"? Only lightly tested, so far.
> >
> > The top-level files are shared with binutils-gdb, which has a different
> > set of subdirs.
>
> Good point, thanks! Fortunately, the failure mode for non-existing
> directories is non-fatal (skipped with 'subdirectory [...] not present'
> diagnostic); with my original "Enable top-level recursive 'autoreconf'"
> (also re-attached) applied to Binutils/GDB Git master branch, we get:
>
> $ PATH=[...] autoreconf -v
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory c++tools not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory fixincludes not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gcc not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gcc/m2 not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gnattools not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory gotools not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory intl to autoreconf
> autoreconf: Entering directory `intl'
> [...]
> autoreconf: Leaving directory `intl'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory libada not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory libatomic not present
> autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory libbacktrace to autoreconf
> autoreconf: Entering directory `libbacktrace'
> [...]
>
> So we could (a) simply list *all* directories in the shared top-level
> 'configure.ac', or (b) configure GCC vs. other projrcts via a non-shared
> file ('m4_include([config/AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.m4])' or similar -- is there
> an established procedure for non-shared top-level files)? (I don't have
> a strong preference either way.)
>
I'd just like to note that I have GCC bug 103459 open about silencing
warnings from autoreconf:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103459
Although I guess in this case, they're just notices, and not warnings,
so it's probably okay. (-Werror doesn't turn them into errors, does
it?)
> It's just GCC and Binutils/GDB, or are the top-level files also shared
> with additional projects?
>
>
> Grüße
> Thomas
>
>
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