require autoconf-2.69 exactly
R. Diez
rdiezmail-newlib@yahoo.de
Wed Jan 12 20:01:01 GMT 2022
> The newlib & libgloss dirs are already generated using autoconf-2.69.
> To avoid merging new code and/or accidental regeneration using diff
> versions, leverage config/override.m4 to pin to 2.69 exactly. This
> matches what gcc/binutils/gdb are already doing.
Pinning to exactly version 2.69 is a strange thing to do.
I have been using Autoconf 2.69 for years in my embedded firmware project, and when 2.70 and 2.71 came out not long ago, I upgraded without any
trouble. They also bring a raft of general improvements.
Is there a reason why Newlib must be exactly be in sync with whatever GCC etc. do?
The regeneration problems you have every now and then are a consequence of checking in the files that the Autotools generate. You are not supposed to
do that. Anybody directly using a source code repository should be running some bootstrap script, perhaps with a common name like autogen.sh, in order
to generate the Autotools files first.
The release tarballs you generate here should include the generated Autotools files:
ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/
That is, assuming you could actually access an FTP server with a modern browser.
I am sure you know that this is standard practice with the Autotools. I can imagine some delay implementing it until the whole Autotools mess in
Newlib has been cleaned up (which is a great thing to do, by the way). But pinning to an exact Autoconf version seems like a step in the wrong direction.
Regards,
rdiez
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