Re: How to regenerate Makefile.in in newlib

[Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>]

On 2016-03-22 12:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2016-03-22 11:37, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > I have a first cut at srandom and random but am
> > going to need to regenerate Makefile.in's to test.
> >
> > How does one do that?
>
> Due to the removal of cygnus tree support in later versions of automake,
> you need to use automake-1.11.6.  On Cygwin, we have special packages
> for this purpose (named gcc-tools-epoch2-{autoconf,automake}) installed
> into /opt/gcc-tools.  Having spoken to other binutils/gcc/gdb
> contributors, I gather everyone rolls either own custom build of these
> versions of the tools and use it accordingly.

I also forgot to mention that you need to change into the correct 
directory, which given what you're trying to do will probably be 
newlib/libc.

--
Yaakov