What autogen is needed for GCC?

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>]

> I'm trying to setup a proper testing environment for GCC testing,
> but I am not clear on the version of autogen that is required.
> A search in the archives doesn't make me much wiser, and the
> obvious http://gcc.gnu.org/install/test.html does not list this
> information either.
>
>
> Also, are there other tools for which we require specific versions,
> or for which we know that certain recent versions will not work?
>
>
> -Geert


I believe any version of autogen from 5.2 up will work for regenerating 
the toplevel Makefile.in and for generating fixincludes, which are the 
only parts of GCC which use autogen.

You shouldn't need autogen for GCC testing at all; all the 
autogen-generated files are included in CVS.  Unless you've been 
altering fixincludes or the top level Makefile.[tpl|def], you don't need 
autogen.

I'm not sure what problem you're having.  Perhaps you're thinking of 
autoconf and automake?  GCC uses autoconf 2.13, and some obsolete 
version of automake, but I don't remember which because I don't like 
automake.

If you're moving the ada library into a separate toplevel directory like 
the other libraries, then I guess you do need to alter the top level 
Makefile, and I'll be happy to help in any way possible.  (Probably you 
just need to add one line in Makefile.def, add one dependency in 
Makefile.tpl, and rerun autogen.)

--Nathanael