[RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions.

[Klee Dienes]

My primary interest in all of this is to fully merge the Apple 
Binutils/GDB sources into the FSF tree, which requires some changes to 
libtool that are only in more recent versions of libtool/autoconf.

My secondary interest is that I seem to spend a lot of time hacking 
Binutils/GDB makefiles, and I'd like that process to be as painless as 
possible.

I'm in a moderate hurry for the gdb/binutils changes, mainly because 
Apple needs to have some form of the changes to enable the FSF sources 
to build properly on our platform, and I find the mental load of 
maintaining the divergent sources to be a headache, particularly when 
preparing patches.

I'm in no particular hurry for the libiberty changes, since it doesn't 
use libtool anyway and the current build setup works fine for Apple in 
the short-term.  I eventually hope to libtool-ize libiberty as well, 
but that can certainly wait until an appropriate time in the GCC 
release cycle.

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 12:42 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> By the time the issues are worked out for gdb/binutils and the switch
> made there, gcc will hopefully have branched.  Plus the gcc head is
> more stable than the branch anyway, which is what I'd prefer be the
> main copy for everyone else.
>
> How much of a hurry are you in, anyway?