Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/08/17/20:47:10
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:07:18PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> After some back and forth discussion, I have checked in a fix for
>> the libiberty problem that was raised here earlier.
>>
>> It bears no resemblance to my previous change. It is *a lot* simpler,
>> actually.
>>
>> So, CVS should build again.
>
>
>FWIW, libiberty/configure.in still isn't autoconf-able with 2.52, unless
>something is done; the attached patch has the following characteristics:
>
>1) using autoconf-2.13, winsup updated from cvs (includes cgf's most
>recent change to libiberty), and the attached patch: autoconf-2.13 in
>libiberty generates a configure that is identical to the one Chris put
>into CVS earlier today.
>
>(Yes, since everybody ignored my patch, I re-installed the obsolete
>autoconf-2.13 package and tested the damn thing myself.)
It's not a matter of ignoring. I was trying to fix a specific problem.
The problem was not "How do I get libiberty working with 2.52?" It
was how do I get a specific problem fixed.
As a scientist, I know that you understand that changing two variables
at once is rarely a good method for solving a problem. The issue of
whether configure works in 2.52 is not something that really concerns
me. That's an issue that can be hashed out in the gcc-patches mailing
list.
I suspect that you are reporting errors in building the host libiberty
rather than the target libiberty. I was confining my efforts to the
libiberty that gets built in the i686-pc-cygwin target directory.
I guess I have to worry about the higher level one, too. Hmm.
I hate libiberty.
cgf
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