[PATCH] newlib: filter out versions from newlib.h to simplify autoreconf

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de
Tue Oct 17 05:40:02 GMT 2023


On 15.10.23 11:32, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> We've been manually editing newlib.hin after generating it with 
> autoheader to drop the version defines that we keep in the separate 
> _newlib_version.h header. This is confusing for people, and is an easy 
> source of mistakes/errors. Since we're already running sed on newlib.h 
> during configure to filter out defines we don't want to expose, add the 
> version macros there too. This way we don't have to manually edit 
> newlib.hin. This simplifies the autoreconf step in exchange for a 
> slightly more complicated configure+sed step, but seems worth the trade-off.

Thanks, this is a nice improvement for occasional contributors like me.

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