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

2012-04-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 03:17 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > 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 i

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 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 Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini writes: > > Stefano> On a second though, by double-checking the existing code, I > Stefano> couldn't see how the 'cygnus' option could possibly influence >

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

2012-04-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 10:05 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 04/03/2012 10:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info' >> files generated in the builddir in your use cases. Since the actual change >>

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

2012-04-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 10:04 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info' > files generated in the builddir in your use cases. Since the actual change > required by automake to allow this is very small and safe, I

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

2012-04-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
acceptable to you. Regards, Stefano >From de715b44d25ad523b558d7321ce87bcf8c0cdb09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 22:02:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] texinfo: hack to allow '.info' files to be generated in the builddir The possibility to force the '.info&#

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

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/02/2012 10:19 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini writes: > > Stefano> It should still be possible, with the right hack (which is > Stefano> tested in the testsuite, and required by other packages > Stefano> anyway)

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

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/02/2012 09:36 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini writes: > > Stefano> Sorry if I sound dense, but what exactly is the feature you are > Stefano> talking about here? > > I was under the impression that it would n

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

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/02/2012 05:16 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini writes: > > Stefano> True, and that was even stated in the manual; the whole point > Stefano> of ditching support for cygnus trees is that by now those two > Stefano>

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

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/02/2012 04:25 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini writes: > > Stefano> Note there's nothing I'm planning to do, nor I should do, in > Stefano> this regard: the two setups described above are both already > S

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

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/31/2012 01:38 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 03/28/2012 02:19 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Hi Joseph, thanks for the feedback. >> On 03/28/2012 01:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: >>> >>> Is there better transition documentation somewhere? >>&g

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

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/28/2012 02:19 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Joseph, thanks for the feedback. > On 03/28/2012 01:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: >> >> Is there better transition documentation somewhere? >> > Nope, but it would be a good idea to prepare it before starting to depr

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

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Alfred. On 03/31/2012 11:08 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > - Have them distributed (automake's default). This means that >they will be build in the srcdir, not in the builddir: of >course, this only affects the maintainer, since for a user that >builds the package f

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

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Ian, Joseph, and sorry for the delay. On 03/29/2012 01:43 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Stefano Lattarini writes: > >>> (I think avoiding info documentation being built in the source directory, >>> so that builds could use a non-writable source directory, ma

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

2012-03-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/28/2012 02:29 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> - texinfo.tex is not required if a Texinfo source file is specified. The >> assumption is that the file will be supplied, but in a place that >> Automake cannot

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

2012-03-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Joseph, thanks for the feedback. On 03/28/2012 01:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> But this option is going to be deprecated in Automake 1.12.1 and removed in >> Automake 1.13: >> >> <http://debbugs.gn

Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-03-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello. I see that binutils, GCC and GDB still use the Automake's 'cygnus' option in some of their makefiles: $ grep_cygnus() { > grep -r 'cygnus' . \ >| perl -ne '/(^|[^@])cygnus($|(:!\.com\b))/ and print' \ >| grep -v '^[^:]*/Makefile\.in:'; \ > } $ (cd ~/src/binutils && g