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

2012-04-04 Thread Joseph S. Myers
Binutils/GDB release tarball building process is substantially different and I'm not familiar with it. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com

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

2012-03-28 Thread Joseph S. Myers
;http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01674.html>, but there was pushback on that. I don't know, however, if it actually depends on anything built into automake. > - The check target doesn't depend on all. I'm not aware of a need for that. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com

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

2012-03-28 Thread Joseph S. Myers
ed way to achieve each part of the effect of "cygnus", if still desired (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). Is there better transition documentati

Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make? (was: Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] portability)

2011-11-23 Thread Joseph S. Myers
s, we should not do so in Automake! > > Rather, one GNU package could drop support for ordinary Make, and see > how users react. If the level of complaint is not too high, then GCC dropped support for non-GNU make in version 3.4 (April 2004). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com

Re: RFE: allow for computed version number

2009-05-28 Thread Joseph S. Myers
n auto* for this feature rather than each package needing to do it locally. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com

Re: Problem with building .info files?

2006-11-19 Thread Joseph S. Myers
t seems that I have to do the same?! Refer to how fastjar (which used automake) worked with --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir before it was removed from the GCC source tree. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: depcomp deficiency [was: m4-1.4.7 build feedback]

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph S. Myers
ow if the linker supports -- as would be required), or rewriting the command as the equivalent gcc ./-foo.c ./-lbar -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: depcomp deficiency [was: m4-1.4.7 build feedback]

2006-09-28 Thread Joseph S. Myers
ining arguments that they pass unchanged. > > Which unfortunately does not work since gcc interprets -- as an ambigous > abbreviation instead of the end-of-option-marker. This is a GCC bug; please enter it in GCC Bugzilla if not already there. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]