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.
Libtool needs to get BSD-format (or MS-format) output out of the system
nm, so that it can scan generated object files for symbol names for
-export-symbols-regex support. Some nms need specific flags to turn on
BSD-formatted output, so libtool checks for this in its AC_PATH_NM.
Unfortunately the code to do this has a pair of interlocking flaws:
- it runs the test by doing an nm of /dev/null. Some platforms
reasonably refuse to do an nm on a device file, but before now this
has only been worked around by assuming that the error message has a
specific textual form emitted by Tru64 nm, and that getting this
error means this is Tru64 nm and that nm -B would work to produce
BSD-format output, even though the test never actually got anything
but an error message out of nm -B. This is fixable by nm'ing *nm
itself* (since we necessarily have a path to it).
- the test is entirely skipped if NM is set in the environment, on the
grounds that the user has overridden the test: but the user cannot
reasonably be expected to know that libtool wants not only nm but
also flags forcing BSD-format output. Worse yet, one such "user" is
the top-level Cygnus configure script, which neither tests for
nor specifies any BSD-format flags. So platforms needing BSD-format
flags always fail to set them when run in a Cygnus tree, breaking
-export-symbols-regex on such platforms. Libtool also needs to
augment $LD on some platforms, but this is done unconditionally,
augmenting whatever the user specified: the nm check should do the
same.
One wrinkle: if the user has overridden $NM, a path might have been
provided: so we use the user-specified path if there was one, and
otherwise do the path search as usual. (If the nm specified doesn't
work, this might lead to a few extra pointless path searches -- but
the test is going to fail anyway, so that's not a problem.)
(Tested with NM unset, and set to nm, /usr/bin/nm, my-nm where my-nm is a
symlink to /usr/bin/nm on the PATH, and /not-on-the-path/my-nm where
*that* is a symlink to /usr/bin/nm.)
ChangeLog
2021-09-27 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
PR libctf/27967
* libtool.m4 (LT_PATH_NM): Try BSDization flags with a user-provided
NM, if there is one. Run nm on itself, not on /dev/null, to avoid
errors from nms that refuse to work on non-regular files. Remove
other workarounds for this problem. Strip out blank lines from the
nm output.
This reports common symbols like GNU nm, via a type code of 'C'.
ChangeLog
2021-09-27 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
PR libctf/27967
* libtool.m4 (lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe): Augment symcode for
Solaris 11.
AR from older binutils doesn't work with --plugin and rc:
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ touch foo.c
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ar --plugin /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/liblto_plugin.so rc libfoo.a foo.c
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ./ar --plugin /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/liblto_plugin.so rc libfoo.a foo.c
./ar: no operation specified
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ./ar --version
GNU ar (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.29.51.0.1.20180112
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$
Check if AR works with --plugin and rc before passing --plugin to AR and
RANLIB.
PR ld/27173
* configure: Regenerated.
* libtool.m4 (_LT_CMD_OLD_ARCHIVE): Check if AR works with
--plugin and rc before enabling --plugin.
config/
PR ld/27173
* gcc-plugin.m4 (GCC_PLUGIN_OPTION): Check if AR works with
--plugin and rc before enabling --plugin.
libiberty/
PR ld/27173
* configure: Regenerated.
zlib/
PR ld/27173
* configure: Regenerated.
