Commit: Update libiberty

Simon Marchi simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Tue Jan 13 15:41:01 GMT 2026


On 1/13/26 10:14 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
>>   It turns out that I had newer versions of the standard autotools in
>>   my search path, which is why I made those mistakes.
> 
>  FWIW I use a local build of pristine autotools with a version suffix 
> appended to the respective commands and then $AUTOCONF/$AUTOM4TE envvar 
> overrides to avoid this very issue when updating binutils/GDB/GCC/glibc.  
> The suffix is a standard `configure' script feature, but there's a small 
> modification required to the build process so that there's no pkgdatadir 
> overlap between installed versions.  I can share the details if that 
> helped.  It has worked for me for decades.
> 
>   Maciej

I do the same (build upstream autoconf/automake), but install them in a
custom prefix specific for this.  When I want to re-generate the
binutils-gdb stuff, I add that prefix to my PATH.  No modification
required.

Simon


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