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Re: Patch to update top-level config to autoconf 2.59
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:16:13 +1000
- Subject: Re: Patch to update top-level config to autoconf 2.59
- References: <200608102008.NAA28243@hpsje.cup.hp.com> <20060810202957.GA31776@nevyn.them.org>
> > Here is my final patch to update autoconf in the src tree. All subtrees
> > have been updated to be configured by autoconf 2.59 and this patch
> > updates the top level configure and Makefiles to also use 2.59. The
> > only real change needed was to rename AS_FOR_TARGET to GAS_FOR_TARGET.
> > I also changed COMPILER_AS_FOR_TARGET to COMPILER_GAS_FOR_TARGET, though
> > that wasn't strictly necessary, it just seemed like a good idea to
> > maintain the naming consistency.
>
> Why was the AS_FOR_TARGET change necessary?
I wondered that, too. I'm concerned that this is a user-visible
change that might break users and/or build scripts. It's possible to
use other assemblers for assembling target code and we should not
preclude this (or hint at it by virtue of its name).
Ben