bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 03:17 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Note there's nothing I'm planning to do, nor I should do, in this regard: the two setups described above are both already supported by the current automake implementation (but the last one is not

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: Stefano == Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: Stefano On a second though, by double-checking the existing code, I Stefano couldn't see how the 'cygnus' option could possibly influence Stefano the location of the generated info

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/04/2012 01:53 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Pedro Alves pal...@redhat.com writes: OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info' ... it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally) hack!info-in-builddir. I hope this is acceptable to you.

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Tromey
Stefano == Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: Stefano Note there's nothing I'm planning to do, nor I should do, in Stefano this regard: the two setups described above are both already Stefano supported by the current automake implementation (but the last Stefano one is not

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-04-02 Thread Tom Tromey
Stefano == Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: Stefano True, and that was even stated in the manual; the whole point Stefano of ditching support for cygnus trees is that by now those two Stefano big users are basically not making any real use of the 'cygnus' Stefano option

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Ian, Joseph, and sorry for the delay. On 03/29/2012 01:43 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: (I think avoiding info documentation being built in the source directory, so that builds could use a non-writable source directory, may have been

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-03-31 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
- Have them distributed (automake's default). This means that they will be build in the srcdir, not in the builddir: of course, this only affects the maintainer, since for a user that builds the package from a tarball those files should *not* be rebuilt, hence

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Alfred. On 03/31/2012 11:08 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: - Have them distributed (automake's default). This means that they will be build in the srcdir, not in the builddir: of course, this only affects the maintainer, since for a user that builds the package from

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/28/2012 02:19 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Joseph, thanks for the feedback. On 03/28/2012 01:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Is there better transition documentation somewhere? Nope, but it would be a good idea to prepare it before starting to deprecate the 'cygnus' option. Maybe

bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 03/31/2012 01:38 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 03/28/2012 02:19 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Joseph, thanks for the feedback. On 03/28/2012 01:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Is there better transition documentation somewhere? Nope, but it would be a good idea to prepare it before