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Re: How is aclocal.m4 in gcc maintained?
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:37:47PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:26:22AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > HJ, there's a file 'config/acinclude.m4' in the top level. Rather than
> > introducing a new accross.m4 file, why not put the macros in
> > config/acinclude.m4? That's already supposed to be included by other
> > acinclude.m4 or aclocal.m4 files.
>
> That will generate very different aclocal.m4 for fastjar and libffi.
> But I don't mind moving accross.m4 into config.
Seems like a good idea. :-) I'm planning to add some general-purpose
macros which handle cross-compilation properly myself
(AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL parallelling AC_CHECK_TOOL, for instance), and
I'll be more comfortable dropping them in accross.m4 if it's in config.
> > Directories which *don't* have their own acinclude.m4 are
> > mostly directories which *don't* use Automake. Fastjar seems to be a
> > bizarre exception, and probably should have an acinclude.m4.
> >
> > gcc in particular does *not* use Automake. I believe it *already*
> > includes config/acinclude.m4 (though I'm not sure). So if you added the
>
> I didn't see.
Erp, I was wrong. :-/ Sent my message too quickly. GCC doesn't include
it.
--Nathanael