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Re: How is libtool updated in GCC?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:26:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: How is libtool updated in GCC?
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, FX wrote:
> > If you import rather than selectively merging one change you need (I
> > think) to revert libtool commit 3334f7ed5851ef1e96b052f2984c4acdbf39e20c
> > (incompatible with GCC handling of sysroots), as well as updating all
> > three relevant repositories (GCC, binutils-gdb, src - I'm not sure if
> > anything in binutils-gdb actually uses libtool but it has the files at
> > toplevel).
>
> So Iâve actually chosen to avoid the mess and selectly merge the one
> change that we need. Looking at the history of libtool.m4 in our tree,
> it looks like others have done that in the past, too.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. On the src repository, is it documented
> somewhere how to change it? (I have probably done it in the past, but
> donât remember)
The src repository in this context is about newlib / libgloss. Update the
shared files, regenerate affected files in subdirectories with whatever
version of auto* was previously used (which may not be fully consistent
everywhere).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com