Re: RFC: automatic dependency tracking for gdbserver

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> I think I'd mildly prefer having these listed explicitly in
Pedro> acinclude.m4, so you can do just autoreconf on the command line
Pedro> or aclocal, without worrying about forgetting -I (IIRC,
Pedro> ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is actually ignored, because we're not using
Pedro> automake).  WDYT?

Sure, I will make that change.

Pedro> I actually have a patch for GDB that does the
Pedro> same to gdb's aclocal.

I think the change would be fine, but gdb does actually use this
variable:

$(srcdir)/aclocal.m4: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ $(aclocal_m4_deps)
	cd $(srcdir) && $(ACLOCAL) $(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS)

gdbserver doesn't seem to have these maintainer-mode rebuild rules.
All these little details are a benefit of automake; but I looked at that
a bit and it is kind of a pain to switch over.

Pedro> I do wonder why does acinclude.m4 use sinclude instead of
Pedro> include.  I don't see why you'd ever want those includes to
Pedro> silently fail.

Yeah, that is weird.

Tom