On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:55:38PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Perhaps --enable-maintainer-mode could be extended to specify a PATH
to use to find the tools.
It would need to be on a per-directory basis. Something like
--enable-maintainer-mode=\
"gdb:/usr/local/000227/bin,libstdc++-v3:/usr/local/oldauto/bin,*:yes"
What if the rules generated by --enable-maintainer-mode were to pass a
version number to each of the tools when using them to re-generate
files? The version number passed would be the same version number used
to generate the existing version of the generated files. Then the
autotools could either dispatch to the correct version of the tool
based on the version number, or