Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-03 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Stefano Lattarini writes: > But since I'm not yet ready to publish this new feature, I intend to make > it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally) > "hack!info-in-builddir". I hope this is acceptable to you. Sure, works for me. Thanks. Ian

Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Stefano Lattarini writes: >> Anyway the real use in the src tree is different, IIUC. >> Info files are built in the build tree by developers, but put in the >> source tree for distribution. >> > In such a setup, what is the issue with having the '.info' files built > in the srcdir? It's not like

Re: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-03-28 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Stefano Lattarini writes: >> (I think avoiding info documentation being built in the source directory, >> so that builds could use a non-writable source directory, may have been >> one part). >> > There is probably some hack to obtain this effect (it's tested in the > testsuite > somewhere), but

bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Stefano Lattarini writes: > On Thursday 13 January 2011, Ian Lance wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini writes: >> >> > Are you sure about this? Why then is the attached testcase working >> > (for me at least)? >> >> I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with your >> example. A relat

bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Stefano Lattarini writes: > Are you sure about this? Why then is the attached testcase working > (for me at least)? I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with your example. A relative srcdir will sometimes work and sometimes fail. It seemed to me an absolute srcdir should alw

bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

2011-01-12 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
When automake is configured to use DejaGNU, it uses two different values for srcdir. There are two different cases in lib/am/dejagnu.am: The first is in check-DEJAGNU: check-DEJAGNU: site.exp ## Life is easiest with an absolute srcdir, so do that. srcdir=`$(am__cd) $(srcdir) && pwd`; exp

Re: PATCH RFA: Add Go support

2010-11-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ralf Wildenhues writes: > OK. So IIUC one example dependency graph would be something like this: > > ( sin.go cos.go exp.go ) -> math.OBJEXT -> libfem.so > ( grid.go solver.go )-> sub/pdesolve.OBJEXT ---^ > > where the sets of .go files are distinct, the sets of object files > ("pack

Re: PATCH RFA: Add Go support

2010-11-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Ralf Wildenhues writes: > [ dropping libtool@ ] > > * Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:48:03PM CET: >> Ralf Wildenhues writes: >> >> > We need a bit of new notation for this, and we need to teach automake >> > about languages that sho

Re: [PATCH]: ld/Makefile.am

2000-03-10 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:52:32 +0100 From: Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> Executing a shell script does use a bit more memory, but only just |> enough for "/bin/sh" and the name of the script to execute. If that |> is pushing H.J. over the memory limit, then he must have b

Re: [PATCH]: ld/Makefile.am

2000-03-10 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:10:39 +0100 From: Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |>Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:50:59 -0800 |>From: "H . J . Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> |>I know t

Re: [PATCH]: ld/Makefile.am

2000-03-09 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:50:59 -0800 From: "H . J . Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I know this patch doesn't look very clean. But I don't know automake well enough to make it better. Here is the problem I am trying to fix. I got: # /work/ia64/bin/cygnus/2303/gcc/xgcc -B/usr/ia64-