Re: [PATCH] Add a script for regenerating all newlib autotools files

Hi Jon,

On Dec  9 21:47, Jon Turney wrote:
> Add a script for regenerating all newlib autotools files, applying the
> instructions in the 'Regenerating Configuration Files' section of the
> README everywhere.

Great idea.

> Running this script produces loads of errors about 'no AC_LANG_SOURCE
> call detected in body' from libtool.m4.  This is because that file is
> old.
> 
> The versions of autotools in use on newlib seem to have backslid since
> the README was last updated (for newlib 2.1.0 in 2013), so bring those
> into alignment.  I don't know why.  I'm a little skeptical that automake
> 1.13 was used, since that doesn't permit '--cygnus', which we use.
> ---
>  newlib/README     |  4 ++--
>  newlib/autogen.sh | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 newlib/autogen.sh
> 
> diff --git a/newlib/README b/newlib/README
> index 1c0541284..d47cccbcb 100644
> --- a/newlib/README
> +++ b/newlib/README
> [...]
> +# automake
> +find -name configure.ac | while read f
> +do
> +  # Exclude directories containing a configure.ac and below, so that Makefile.in
> +  # files are generated from the nearest directory up the tree which contains a
> +  # configure.ac file.
> +  (cd $(dirname $f) ; find -type d -execdir test -e {}/configure.ac ';' -a -not -path '.' -prune -o -name Makefile.am -printf '%P\n' | while read m
> +   do
> +    automake-1.11 -ac ${m%.*}

Not being an automake guru at all, but... isn't the --cygnus option missing?


Thanks,
Corinna