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Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano dot lattarini at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ams at gnu dot org, iant at google dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, 11034 at debbugs dot gnu dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org, automake at gnu dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org, joseph at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:16:30 -0600
- Subject: Re: bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option
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>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> 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> big users are basically not making any real use of the 'cygnus'
Stefano> option anymore. To quote my previous report:
Stefano> ./bfd/doc/Makefile.in:AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.9 cygnus
Stefano> ./bfd/doc/Makefile.in:# cygnus option.
Stefano> ./bfd/doc/Makefile.am:AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.9 cygnus
Stefano> ./bfd/doc/Makefile.am:# cygnus option.
But this is a reason not to remove it; or at least to restore the
previous handling of info files.
I don't care about the cygnus option per se. It was always a grab bag
of hacks. The issue is removing a feature that an important user relies
on. So far the suggested replacements haven't seemed that good to me.
Tom