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[patch] binutils/: Remove the dependency on ancient automake

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org
Thu Apr 14 17:20:00 GMT 2005 
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> There's actually a reason why I haven't done binutils and ld yet.  They
> both use ylwrap; binutils uses it via automake rules, ld may in some
> circumstances but usually uses it via explicit rules, and gdb off in
> its non-automake corner uses it explicitly.

 Indeed.

> I'm hesitant to move them over separately; the last time I looked at
> this I decided the only viable option was to update all three and
> import a new ylwrap, all simultaneously.  Which is not hard to do, of
> course!  But I never got around to it.

 There's that minor complication about binutils and gdb being separate 
modules...

> Can you check out my reasoning here?  Did your tests try to regenerate
> the lexers/parsers?  I did all the above from memory from last year, so
> it might easily be bogus.

 I'll have a look.

  Maciej
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