x-files must die: generate *config.h from the Makefile, etc

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:57:59PM -0500, Brad Lucier wrote:
> If you're looking for parallel build failures, here's on
> on solaris 2.8 with today's 3.1 experimental, without your
> patch proposed patch:
> 
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `sparc/xm-sysv4.h', needed by `genattr.o'.	Stop.
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> echo timestamp > ../../gcc/cstamp-h.in
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/lucier/gcc/objdir/gcc'
> make[1]: *** [stage1_build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/lucier/gcc/objdir/gcc'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> 
> this is with make -j 8 bootstrap on a 4 processor machine.

Just to confirm what I think you said above: this is the tree
_without_ my patch?

Could you send me the output of 'grep xm_file Makefile' in objdir/gcc,
please? It looks like make hasn't been told that sparc/xm-sysv4.h
lives in $(srcdir)/config.  configure is supposed to get that right,
so...

zw