bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: Stefano == Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: Stefano On a second though, by double-checking the existing code, I Stefano couldn't see how the 'cygnus' option could possibly influence Stefano the location of the generated info

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 01:53 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Pedro Alves pal...@redhat.com writes: OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info' ... it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally) hack!info-in-builddir. I hope this is acceptable to you.

Re: bug#11146: texinfo: could automake start using the '--tidy' option in its dvi and pdf rules?

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/01/2012 10:49 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: References: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11146 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2012-04/msg2.html On 04/01/2012 03:11 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 04/01/2012 02:30 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Most

Re: bug#11153: change automake branching policy: dispensing with the 'branch-X.Y' branches in the future

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 12:01 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: [SNIP] I'll try to explain what I mean again... I think we should do exactly as you describe above. However, for the class of changes that are related to the actual release from maint Changes which, actually, consist just in *bumping a version

Re: bug#11153: change automake branching policy: dispensing with the 'branch-X.Y' branches in the future

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-04-04 11:50, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 04/03/2012 12:01 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: [SNIP] I'll try to explain what I mean again... I think we should do exactly as you describe above. However, for the class of changes that are related to the actual release from maint Changes which,

Re: bug#11153: change automake branching policy: dispensing with the 'branch-X.Y' branches in the future

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 12:55 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2012-04-04 11:50, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 04/03/2012 12:01 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: [SNIP] I'll try to explain what I mean again... I think we should do exactly as you describe above. However, for the class of changes that are related to

Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: Stefano == Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: Stefano On a second though, by double-checking the existing code, I Stefano couldn't see how the 'cygnus' option could possibly influence Stefano the location of the generated info

Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 01:53 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Pedro Alves pal...@redhat.com writes: OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info' ... it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally) hack!info-in-builddir. I hope this is acceptable to you.

Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Note there's nothing I'm planning to do, nor I should do, in this regard: the two setups described above are both already supported by the current automake implementation (but the last one is not encouraged, even though it makes perfect sense in

Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 01:53 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Pedro Alves pal...@redhat.com writes: OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info' ... it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally) hack!info-in-builddir. I hope this is acceptable to you.

Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Pedro Alves
On 04/04/2012 12:53 AM, Miles Bader wrote: I suspect there are better, cleaner, ways to accomplish the underlying goal, but I suppose the gcc maintainers don't want to spend the time fiddling around with their build infrastructure for such a minor issue... Why speculate? I haven't seen any

Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: Stefano == Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: Stefano On a second though, by double-checking the existing code, I Stefano couldn't see how the 'cygnus' option could possibly influence Stefano the location of the generated info