Subject: Re: using 'configure' out of gnu/dist
To: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 06/04/1999 20:46:03
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Castor Fu wrote:

: It looks like several files have been removed which breaks the ability
: to build cross-compile tools to netbsd from gnu/dist.  Would people mind
: if I put back in the following:
: 
: 	gnu/dist/ltconfig
: 	gnu/dist/ltmain.sh
: 	gnu/dist/mkinstalldirs

From whom?

The binutils-2.9.1 files work for binutils but break egcs.
The egcs-1.1.1 files break binutils.

This is on my task list.  I am intending to pull in the build structure from
Cygnus's `main' repository.

: Do we have a conduit to get this stuff back to whoever maintains things
: like binutils?

Yah, me.  I have started bundling some of the changes to submit back to the
maintainers.

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