Re: PATCH: Remove --with-bugurl in gas, ld, gprof and binutils

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, H. J. Lu wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:09:35AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > There is only one --with-pkgversion in bfd. But we have
> > --with-bugurl in bfd, gas, ld, gprof and binutils. Is this
> > really necessary? Can't we have just one in bfd, like
> > --with-pkgversion?
> > 
> 
> This patch removes --with-bugurl in gas, ld, gprof and binutils.

I have a patch pending review 
<http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-03/msg00027.html> to make 
--with-bugurl apply to the manuals.  Could you make your patch relative to 
a tree with my patch applied, or wait for my patch to be reviewed and then 
prepare a new patch that takes account of using this information in the 
manuals?  The manuals don't presently have a common include file from BFD 
the way the C source does - but you could create one.

I certainly don't object to moving the bulk of both --with-bugurl and 
--with-pkgversion configuration logic into an Autoconf macro in a config/ 
file, in a form suitable for use in GCC as well when the corresponding 
changes are merged to GCC (which is scheduled for development stage 2; the 
patches are ready but may be further revised before merge).  Suitability 
for GCC means the default pkgversion and bugurl would be arguments to the 
respective ACX_PKGVERSION / ACK_BUGURL macros.  Making into macros would 
be one of the most useful ways of reducing duplication here.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com