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How is aclocal.m4 in gcc maintained?


In libffi, I see

dnl aclocal.m4 generated automatically by aclocal 1.4

in aclocal.m4. But when I did

# mv aclocal.m4 aclocal.m4.saved
# cd ....../libffi
# make aclocal.m4
cd /home/hjl/work/gnu/src/tools-3.1/tools/libffi && aclocal

The generated aclocal.m4 is different from the saved aclocal.m4. There
is

2002-01-31  Anthony Green  <green@redhat.com>

        * configure: Rebuilt.
        * configure.in: Replace CHECK_SIZEOF and endian tests with
        cross-compiler friendly macros. 
        * aclocal.m4 (AC_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_C_BIGENDIAN_CROSS): New
        macros.

Why put AC_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF and AC_C_BIGENDIAN_CROSS in a generated
file? There are 3 different copies of AC_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF in the
gcc source tree. Why not just use one copy and fix all diretories,
including fastjar?


H.J.


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