updating autotools in the rest of src (was: [PATCH 4/N] The big bump)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

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Hello Christopher,

* Christopher Faylor wrote on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:55:50PM CEST:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:57:19PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> >Ralf> This patch series is almost ready to go otherwise (expect to be able to
> >Ralf> commit this weekend), and it'd be sad to see it hostage of the lesser
> >Ralf> tightly maintained part of the tree.
> >
> >FWIW, I tend to agree.  I know this sort of change is very difficult to
> >get in and I think it would be worthwhile to bend the rules a little to
> >make it simpler for you.
> 
> I mainly agree but I'd like to know exactly what the "lesser tightly
> maintained part" means since that is a judgement call rather than an
> objective determination.

Certainly.  I did not intend to let it have any kind of definite
meaning, much less so a statement about the maintenance quality
that the various parts of the src tree are kept under.

*Just* that I asked for permission to get that part in that I had done.
And for me, this transition was greatly helped by someone kindly
providing public git mirrors of the GCC and of the binutils+gdb trees,
which is exactly the set of files I worked on so far.  Are there similar
trees for the rest of src?

Also, such a transition is made a lot easier when all makefiles
contain rebuild rules for all autotool-generated files (it's fine
to have them enabled only when --enable-maintainer-mode is passed).

I intend to work on the rest of the tree, and DaveK offered to help
with winsup.  If you are experiencing any breakage due to the transition
in parts of the tree that haven't been updated yet, please let me know
about it.

Cheers,
Ralf