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Re: gas/configure
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 09 May 2002 16:36:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: gas/configure
- References: <15576.22739.210734.351710@tooth.toronto.redhat.com>
Hi Ben,
> I see that this was recently regenerated by Mark Mitchell using
> Autoconf 2.53:
>
> revision 1.111
> date: 2002/04/30 17:46:58; author: mmitchel; state: Exp; lines: +7006 -3146
> * configure.in: Add support for powerpc-*-windiss.
> * configure: Regenerated.
>
> Does the binutils project have a policy for the version of Autoconf
> that will be used (at least in the near term) for generating configure
> scripts?
Yes. The top level file README-maintainer-mode specifies that the
autoconf found in:
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils.
Should be used. This is the 2.13 version.
> I bring this up because a change introduced in Autoconf
> 2.50+ has broken "make check" in the gas directory.
Alan Modra has now fixed this.
Cheers
Nick