On 03/04/2024 14:23, Christophe Lyon via Gcc wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 14:59, Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote: >> >> Another possible issue which may be better now than in years past >> is that the versions of autoconf/automake required often had to be >> installed by hand. I think newlib has gotten better but before the >> rework on its Makefile/configure, I had a special install of autotools >> which precisely matched what it required. >> >> And that led to very few people being able to successfully regenerate. >> >> Is that avoidable? >> >> OTOH the set of people touching these files may be small enough that >> pain isn't an issue. >> > > For binutils/gcc/gdb we still have to use specific versions which are > generally not the distro's ones.
That's because at least some distros modify autoconf to their own taste/needs, so that it does not generate the same output as the officially released version. Furthermore, they provide no mechanism to make their version revert back to the original behaviour. R.
