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Re: [Fwd: Some configures in /cvs/src needs regeneration with autoconf]


Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Just FYI,
> 
>  From src/MAINTAINERS:
> 
> gdb/; mmalloc/; readline/; sim/; GDB's part of include/ & dejagnu/
>          gdb: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/
>          Patches to gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com.
>          See also gdb/MAINTAINERS, sim/MAINTAINERS, mmalloc/MAINTAINERS.
> 
> newlib/; libgloss/
>          http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/
>          Patches to newlib@sources.redhat.com.
> 
> I'm forwarding your e-mail.
> 
>         Andrew
> 
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject: Some configures in /cvs/src needs regeneration with autoconf
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 05:21:49 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Michael Matz <matzmich@cs.tu-berlin.de>
> To: <bug-gdb@gnu.org>, <binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was following Geoff Keatings advices to build a simulated test
> environment (the target in this case was d30v-elf), and after configuring
> gdb failed to build.  The inherent reason is that some of the configure
> files involved for this target are still as generated with autoconf 2.10.
> This leads to corruption of the cache file.
> 
> For those interested: before one of these files get invoked config.cache
> has entries similar to that: "ac_cv_prog_CPP=${ac_cv_prog_CPP=$'gcc -E'}"
> If the 2.10 files gets the chance to read/write this cache-file they
> convert this to "ac_cv_prog_CPP=${ac_cv_prog_CPP=$'$gcc -E'}", which later
> in all other configure files leads to $gcc being used as $CPP, which
> then of course fails to run (The case at hand was, that poll() support was
> detected, but neither <poll.h> nor <sys/poll.h> were included, because
> configure thought they were not there).
> 
> The 2.10 files in my checked out /cvs/src (I may be have not got
> everything, only what is needed for the modules binutils, newlib, dejagnu
> and gdb) are:
> 
> ./sim/testsuite/d30v-elf/configure
> ./libgloss/m68k/configure
> ./libgloss/pa/configure
> ./libgloss/hp74x/configure
> ./libgloss/sparc/libsys/configure
> ./libgloss/m32r/configure
> ./utils/sparclite/configure
> 

The libgloss files above have been regenerated for newlib/libgloss using 2.13.

-- Jeff J.


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