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Re: building newlib with recent versions of autotools


Am 12.02.2018 um 17:42 schrieb Daniel Alley:
Could you expand on what some of those side effects and breakages were?

Not really. Because I don't fully remember.

One thing that really got in the way was the rather large number of subdirectories that each have their own configury stuff in them. Those all need to be fixed, one by one. Then libtool and aclocal got into squabbles about the contents of those configure.ac and Makefile.am files.

And sooner or later you run into the very peculiar way that newlib wants to keep most, but not all of its autoconf'ed configuration flags in a separate header file, "newlib.h", while the rest is to be in "_newlib_version.h". The input pattern file newlib.h.in is manually generated --- but Automake really wants to make its own one, from parameter declarations in the configure.ac file.

Do you know of any other developers within the gcc or autotools communities
that might be willing to help work through some of those issues?

No. And given that GCC still sticks with the ancient --cygnus version, I suspect they're not actually interested.


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