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Re: gcc gcc-3_3-branch has configure.in newer than configure


Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net> writes:

> In the gcc 3.3 branch, several people have committed changes to
> the top-level configure.in without regenerating the top-level configure.
>
>   [mgnu at berman gcc]$ ls -l configure configure.in
>   -rwxr-xr-x    1 mgnu     mgnu        49628 Sep 29 12:11 configure
>   -rw-r--r--    1 mgnu     mgnu        52656 Nov 28 15:27 configure.in
>
> Is this normal?  It seems strange to me.

The 3.3 top level configure script is not generated by autoconf.  It
is a cygnus-style configure script and therefore this looks fine.

>
> In particular, 'configure.in' has code to set gxx_include_dir,
> but 'configure' has not been regenerated to use that code.

That's a problem in itself.

Note that mainline has an autoconf generated configure script and in
mainline this situation should not happen,

Andreas
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