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Re: RFA: automatic dependency tracking
- From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:22:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: RFA: automatic dependency tracking
- References: <m3fxq2rilz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20080807054840.GA26651@ins.uni-bonn.de> <m363qciwgj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
* Tom Tromey wrote on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:09:00PM CEST:
> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:
>
> >> +sinclude([../config/depstand.m4])
>
> Ralf> Why sinclude? Shouldn't aclocal fail if the file cannot be included?
> Ralf> (Just curious, really; I see this is done with other files, too.)
> I have a vague recollection that there was some version of autoconf,
> in the distant past, where sinclude was the only way to do this kind
> of inclusion. Then, once this gets into the code, it tends to stick.
>
> So, I think this is probably just inertia and not something more
> obscure.
OK. I'll put it on my grand list of Things To Clean Up In GCC, GDB,
binutils, newlib, and where-not-else.
Thanks,
Ralf