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Re: [RFA] Eliminate warnings about snprintf declaration
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:44:06PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:24:25 -0400
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >
> > I bet I know what it is now. aclocal.m4 uses m4_include to include
> > acinclude.m4; acinclude.m4 uses sinclude to include various other
> > files. Like ../bfd/bfd.m4 and ../gettext.m4.
>
> Probably.
>
> It is still a mystery to me why there's no Makefile rule to regenerate
> configure and config.in when configure.ac is modified.
You can find some ranting about this topic in standards.texi, I think.
It would be inappropriate except for --enable-maintainer-mode, which
GDB doesn't seem to use much - there's only one rule for it. Even if
we did support that, I bet the dependencies would be chronically out of
date anyway.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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