This is a bit of an abbreviated form of what's in the Newlib subdir,
but with emphasis on Libgloss-specific parts, and anything unique to
it. I haven't put too much effort in.
For about half the ports, we don't need a subdir configure script.
They're using the config/default.m[ht] rules, and they aren't doing
any unique configure tests, so they exist just to pass top-level
settings down to create the arch Makefile. We can just as easily
do that from the top-level Mkaefile directly and skip configure.
Most of the remaining configure scripts could be migrated up to
the top-level too, but that would require care in each subdir.
So let's be lazy and put that off to another day.
Use standard AC_MSG_WARN macro in the top-level configure, and delete
the message from all the subdirs. There's no need to issue this more
than once per libgloss build.
The newlib & libgloss dirs are already generated using autoconf-2.69.
To avoid merging new code and/or accidental regeneration using diff
versions, leverage config/override.m4 to pin to 2.69 exactly. This
matches what gcc/binutils/gdb are already doing.
The README file already says to use autoconf-2.69.
To accomplish this, it's just as simple as adding -I flags to the
top-level config/ dir when running aclocal. This is because the
override.m4 file overrides AC_INIT to first require the specific
autoconf version before calling the real AC_INIT.
In order to transition to automake, we have to use hardcoded paths in
the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR macro call (since automake evaluates the path
itself, and doesn't expand vars), so simplify all the calls here.
Regenerate the files using automake-1.15 & autoconf-2.69 to match the
binutils/gdb/gcc projects. Ran:
libgloss $ find -name configure.ac -printf '%h\n' | while read d; do
(cd $d; export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.69 WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.15;
aclocal-1.15 -I.. && autoconf-2.69); done
The toplevel makefile used by binutils/gcc/newlib/etc has install-pdf and
install-html targets, but they fail because libgloss doesn't support them.
Tested with an arm-eabi combined tree build and install, and verifying that
the install-pdf and install-html targets now work, and that the pdf and html
doc files are now in the install tree.
libgloss/
* Makefile.in (install-html, install-pdf): New.
* doc/Makefile.in (htmldir, pdfdir): New.
(porting.ps): Delete white space on blank line.
(install-pdf, install-html): New.
HTML build fails with makeinfo 5.2 with the following error:
libgloss/doc/porting.texi:73: @menu seen before first @node
libgloss/doc/porting.texi:73: perhaps your @top node should be wrapped in
@ifnottex rather than @ifinfo?
Following the advice indeed solve the issue while still allowing pdf, dvi and
info builds to work.