Re: [avr-libc-dev] reconf

[Russell Shaw]

E. Weddington wrote:
> Paul Schlie wrote:
>
> > > From: "E. Weddington" <address@hidden>
> > > Joerg,
> > >
> > > Do you think the version checking in the reconf script is strictly
> > > necessary?
> > > How do you feel about it's removal?
> > >   
> >
> > Personally wouldn't mind if all the reconf/doXXX scripts
> > disappeared in favor of an  updated configure/make.
> >
> > (ideally using more recent autoXXX scripts if
> > someone can figure how to do it construct them)
> Thank you for your opinion. Do you have a patch?

I looked at converting it to autoconf 2.59, but this
line in configure.in is the hard part:

  AC_OUTPUT(
    ...
    [if test -n "$CONFIG_FILES"; then
      . ${avrlib_basedir}/config-ml.in
    fi],
    ...
  )

config-ml is a big shell script dealing with multilibs.
I assume multilib was a cygnus thing for building the
libraries for *all* cpus. config-ml is full of cpus
except avr. It also says:

# We have to handle being invoked by both Cygnus configure and Autoconf.

So, being avr specific, should all this ancient multilib complication
be deleted?

The other way is to save all the effort for putting avr-libc
into newlib or something.