Help needed with maintainer-mode

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On 2024-03-04T00:30:05+0000, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 05:32:15PM +0100, Christophe Lyon wrote:
>>> [...], I read
>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Regenerating_GCC_Configuration
>>> which basically says "run autoreconf in every dir where there is a
>>> configure script"
>>> but this is not exactly what autoregen.py is doing. IIRC it is based
>>> on a script from Martin Liska, do you know/remember why it follows a
>>> different process?
>>
>> CCing Sam and Arsen who helped refine the autoregen.py script, who
>> might remember more details. We wanted a script that worked for both
>> gcc and binutils-gdb. And as far as I know autoreconf simply didn't
>> work in all directories. We also needed to skip some directories that
>> did contain a configure script, but that were imported (gotools,
>> readline, minizip).
>
> What we really need to do is, for a start, land tschwinge/aoliva's patches [0]
> for AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.

Let me allocate some time this week to get that one completed.

> Right now, the current situation is janky and it's nowhere near
> idiomatic autotools usage. It is not a comfortable experience
> interacting with it even as someone who is familiar and happy with using
> autotools otherwise.
>
> I didn't yet play with maintainer-mode myself but I also didn't see much
> point given I knew of more fundamental problems like this.
>
> [0] https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/oril72c4yh.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org/


Grüße
 Thomas