Re: can gcc regenerate src/Makefile.in before the build?
On 11.03.2017 14:30, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote:
>>> # cd src && autogen Makefile.def
>>> This would drop two thousand lines of noise in
>>> debian/patches/bootstrap-no-unneeded-libs.diff
>>> debian/patches/gdc-libphobos-build].diff
>>> plus a bit more in the Ada patches.
> Actually, around 1600 with future libgnatvsn patches.
>
>>> - Gcc-7 already Build-Depends: autogen for unrelated reasons.
>> I didn't see that the autogen dependency is still there. The reason I was trying
>> to avoid it was bootstrapping. autogen depends on guile which I wanted to avoid.
>> I'll look if autogen is used for other cases besides generating the toplevel
>> Makefile.in.
> See at least the debian/changelog entry of 4.9-20140330-1.
>
> If the dependency can be dropped, I suggest that we at least isolate
> all changes affecting src/Makefile.in into a single patch towards the
> end of the patch queue, so that refreshing the patches only requires
> one autogen run, and the noise does not pollute interesting files.
yes, this sounds fine, although I think we should keep the D changes separate,
and apply them after the Ada changes are applied (didn't check what happens if
we don't unpack the gdc tarball and still apply the toplevel patch).
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