Support for Cygnus-style trees has been removed

[Lukas Martini <lutoma at ohai dot su>]

Hi,

I've been using newlib for quite a while now as the libc for a custom
kernel I'm writing on. I've been happy with it so far, but I'm now in a
situation where I haven't been able to compile newlib for a long time
due to the error mentioned in the subject (ÂSupport for Cygnus-style
trees has been removedÂ).

Are there any plans to update the automake configuration files to not
depend on these anymore?



After checking a bit it appears support for Cygnus trees has been
removed from automake in April 2012, and therefore hasn't been in any
automake release after 1.12, the last version of which was released in
December 2012.

As I run Arch Linux, which usually is pretty quick in updating the
packages from upstream, I haven't been able to reconfigure newlib for
quite some time now, but could mitigate this issue by compiling newlib
on a Debian server. By now, debian has also updated their packages. A
quick cursory search reveals that none of the current versions of
Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD ship that version anymore.

This now leaves me in a situation where I'm unable to compile newlib on
any current Linux distribution without manually installing/compiling a
years-old version of automake to make use of a feature which has been
removed almost 4 years ago and has been deprecated even longer, which I
find quite â unlucky.

    Lukas

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2012-04/msg00152.html

See also:
* https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2013/msg00627.html

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Lukas Martini
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