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Re: zlib update for gdb/binutils
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:16:02 +0400
- Subject: Re: zlib update for gdb/binutils
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> > - as noted in another mail, you synced GCC's configure.ac, introducing
> > a build failure with srcdir == builddir builds. With GCC these
> > are discouraged, not sure about the status in gdb/binutils.
>
> In theory it is allowed. But in practice it is discouraged.
>
> > - Please could you apply the GCC r244762 changes to the binutils/gdb
> > tree as well?
>
> In fact we were missing quite a few changes to configure.ac, and
> Makefile.def and Makefile.tpl. So I have checked in a patch to update
> all of these.
Thanks, Nick!
Regarding srcdir == builddir, I agree as well. The problem is that
we have to consider the source packaging as well. I don't know it
well enough right now to tell you whether it would work out-of-tree
or not. After all, you're trying to create a package of the sources,
which includes the files that were checked in the repository, but
also some files that are generated by the source-package process.
I wouldn't want to be missing some files by doing it out of tree...
Maybe there is already a way. If there was, I wouldn't mind taking
the approach where srcdir == builddir is no longer supported. This
would allow some simplifications, particularly in the testsuite
area, I believe.
--
Joel