[email protected] (Karl Berry) skribis: > As far as I know, configure.texi does not exist in autoconf and never > has. It was written by Cygnus (hence gdb/binutils) and doesn't seem to > have been updated in many years. Much of it still looks somewhat > meaningful, other parts look obsolete. Perhaps the right thing to do > there is ask the gdb/binutils maintainers to update it or (more likely?) > remove it. Continuing to distribute it in its stale form doesn't seem > like a good thing. If they prefer to transfer maintainership of the > document to autoconf or gnustandards, that could be considered. > > It makes some sense for standards.texi to be installed by autoconf, but > not gdb/binutils any more, IMHO. (It happens for the same historical > reasons as above.) I suggest filing separate bug reports to ask > gdb/binutils not to do so any more.
Makes sense to me. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16327 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16328 Thanks! Ludo’.
