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RE: Patch: FYI: use AC_HELP_STRING
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De?: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] De la part de Joel Brobecker
> Envoyé?: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:02 PM
> À?: Pierre Muller
> Cc?: 'Tom Tromey'; 'Andreas Schwab'; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Objet?: Re: Patch: FYI: use AC_HELP_STRING
>
> > Why not, but currently only files with suffix ".l", ".y", ".h" and
> ".c"
> > are listed in gdb_find.sh, and that list
> > is currently used by gdb_ari.sh.
> >
> > Will AC_HELP_STRING appear in one of these files?
> > Currently I see AC_HELP_STRING and AS_HELP_STRING
> > only in gdb/configure.ac file,
> > which means that gdb_ari.sh will not be useful.
>
> AC_HELP_STRING is an autoconf macro, so it's not just configure.ac.
> It could also be any of the .m4 files: aciclude.m4, aclocal.m4, etc.
>
> I didn't realize that these files weren't already ARI'ed. If it's too
> much trouble, then we don't have to add a rule for this. It looks like
> it would be very easy to fix any regression when the macro disappears,
> so reintroducing it wouldn't be really all that harmful.
>
> So I'm fine either way: We can decide to start checking the autoconf
> files or not.
>
I wouldn't put that on high priority for the moment...
Pierre