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RE: [patch 1/28] top-level: Use automake-1.11.6
- From: Bernd Edlinger <bernd dot edlinger at hotmail dot de>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
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- Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 08:16:32 +0200
- Subject: RE: [patch 1/28] top-level: Use automake-1.11.6
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Hi,
On Fri, 8 May 2015 20:20:55, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 May 2015, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>
>> But it made the in-tree gmp configure script fail. That would not
>> have happened if we did not pass our version of missing to a sub-
>> module like gmp, that already has a working missing script that behaves
>> differently.
>
> However, that's still not an argument for a downgrade of the toplevel copy
> of "missing" to an older version. We can't possibly match toplevel
> scripts to subdirectories not shipped with GCC, since we want to support
> multiple versions of libraries such as GMP, which may each require a
> different version of such a script if the script makes incompatible
> changes; we can only ensure that they get configured in ways sufficiently
> isolated from GCC itself.
>
No, but I learned from it, that surprises are possible if newer versions
of the tool scripts are used together with an older version of automake.
But maybe you would like it better if we update, for instance, to:
automake-1.14 _and_ autoconf-2.69 ?
Bernd.