When trying to run the update-gnulib.sh script in gdb, I get this:
Error: Wrong automake version (Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^ =:+{}]+)}/ at /opt/automake/1.11.1/bin/automake line 4113.), we need 1.11.1.
Aborting.
Apparently, it's an issue with a regex in automake that triggers a
warning starting with Perl 5.22. It has been fixed in automake 1.15.1.
So I think it's a good excuse to bump the versions of autoconf and
automake used in the gnulib import. And to avoid requiring multiple
builds of autoconf/automake, it was suggested that we bump the required
version of those tools for all binutils-gdb.
For autoconf, the 2.69 version is universally available, so it's an easy
choice. For automake, different distros and distro versions have
different automake versions. But 1.15.1 seems to be the most readily
available as a package. In any case, it's easy to build it from source.
I removed the version checks from AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS and AC_PREREQ,
because I don't think they are useful in our case. They only specify a
lower bound for the acceptable version of automake/autoconf. That's
useful if you let the user choose the version of the tool they want to
use, but want to set a minimum version (because you use a feature that
was introduced in that version). In our case, we force people to use a
specific version anyway. For the autoconf version, we have the check in
config/override.m4 that enforces the version we want. It will be one
less thing to update next time we change autotools version.
I hit a few categories of problems that required some changes. They are
described below along with the chosen solutions.
Problem 1:
configure.ac:17: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated. For more info, see:
configure.ac:17: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
Solution 1:
Adjust the code based on the example at that URL.
Problem 2 (in zlib/):
Makefile.am: error: required file './INSTALL' not found
Makefile.am: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'INSTALL'
Makefile.am: error: required file './NEWS' not found
Makefile.am: error: required file './AUTHORS' not found
Makefile.am: error: required file './COPYING' not found
Makefile.am: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'COPYING'
Solution 2:
Add the foreign option to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
Problem 3:
doc/Makefile.am:20: error: support for Cygnus-style trees has been removed
Solution 3:
Remove the cygnus options.
Problem 4:
Makefile.am:656: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
Solution 4:
Rename "INCLUDES = " to "AM_CPPFLAGS += " (because AM_CPPFLAGS is
already defined earlier).
Problem 5:
doc/Makefile.am:71: warning: suffix '.texinfo' for Texinfo files is discouraged; use '.texi' instead
doc/Makefile.am: warning: Oops!
doc/Makefile.am: It appears this file (or files included by it) are triggering
doc/Makefile.am: an undocumented, soon-to-be-removed automake hack.
doc/Makefile.am: Future automake versions will no longer place in the builddir
doc/Makefile.am: (rather than in the srcdir) the generated '.info' files that
doc/Makefile.am: appear to be cleaned, by e.g. being listed in CLEANFILES or
doc/Makefile.am: DISTCLEANFILES.
doc/Makefile.am: If you want your '.info' files to be placed in the builddir
doc/Makefile.am: rather than in the srcdir, you have to use the shiny new
doc/Makefile.am: 'info-in-builddir' automake option.
Solution 5:
Rename .texinfo files to .texi.
Problem 6:
doc/Makefile.am: warning: Oops!
doc/Makefile.am: It appears this file (or files included by it) are triggering
doc/Makefile.am: an undocumented, soon-to-be-removed automake hack.
doc/Makefile.am: Future automake versions will no longer place in the builddir
doc/Makefile.am: (rather than in the srcdir) the generated '.info' files that
doc/Makefile.am: appear to be cleaned, by e.g. being listed in CLEANFILES or
doc/Makefile.am: DISTCLEANFILES.
doc/Makefile.am: If you want your '.info' files to be placed in the builddir
doc/Makefile.am: rather than in the srcdir, you have to use the shiny new
doc/Makefile.am: 'info-in-builddir' automake option.
Solution 6:
Remove the hack at the bottom of doc/Makefile.am and use
the info-in-builddir automake option.
Problem 7:
doc/Makefile.am:35: error: required file '../texinfo.tex' not found
doc/Makefile.am:35: 'automake --add-missing' can install 'texinfo.tex'
Solution 7:
Use the no-texinfo.tex automake option. We also have one in
texinfo/texinfo.tex, not sure if we should point to that, or move it
(or a newer version of it added with automake --add-missing) to
top-level.
Problem 8:
Makefile.am:131: warning: source file 'config/tc-aarch64.c' is in a subdirectory,
Makefile.am:131: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
automake: warning: possible forward-incompatibility.
automake: At least a source file is in a subdirectory, but the 'subdir-objects'
automake: automake option hasn't been enabled. For now, the corresponding output
automake: object file(s) will be placed in the top-level directory. However,
automake: this behaviour will change in future Automake versions: they will
automake: unconditionally cause object files to be placed in the same subdirectory
automake: of the corresponding sources.
automake: You are advised to start using 'subdir-objects' option throughout your
automake: project, to avoid future incompatibilities.
Solution 8:
Use subdir-objects, that means adjusting references to some .o that will now
be in config/.
Problem 9:
configure.ac:375: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2601: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2617: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:639: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2042: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2063: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
configure.ac:375: the top level
Solution 9:
Use AC_LANG_SOURCE, or use proper quoting.
Problem 10 (in intl/):
configure.ac:7: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
/usr/share/aclocal/threadlib.m4:36: gl_THREADLIB_EARLY_BODY is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/threadlib.m4:29: gl_THREADLIB_EARLY is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/threadlib.m4:318: gl_THREADLIB is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/lock.m4:9: gl_LOCK is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/intl.m4:211: gt_INTL_SUBDIR_CORE is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/intl.m4:25: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4:57: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
configure.ac:7: the top level
Solution 10:
Add AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS in configure.ac.
ChangeLog:
* libtool.m4: Use AC_LANG_SOURCE.
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ, use AC_LANG_SOURCE.
* README-maintainer-mode: Update version requirements.
* ar-lib: New file.
* test-driver: New file.
* configure: Re-generate.
bfd/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove 1.11.
(INCLUDES): Rename to ...
(AM_CPPFLAGS): ... this.
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* doc/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove 1.9, cygnus, add
info-in-builddir no-texinfo.tex.
(info_TEXINFOS): Rename bfd.texinfo to bfd.texi.
* doc/bfd.texinfo: Rename to ...
* doc/bfd.texi: ... this.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* doc/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove cygnus, add
info-in-builddir no-texinfo.tex.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
config/ChangeLog:
* override.m4 (_GCC_AUTOCONF_VERSION): Bump from 2.64 to 2.69.
etc/ChangeLog:
* configure.in: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* configure: Re-generate.
gas/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove 1.11, add subdir-objects.
(TARG_CPU_O, OBJ_FORMAT_O, ATOF_TARG_O): Add config/ prefix.
* configure.ac (TARG_CPU_O, OBJ_FORMAT_O, ATOF_TARG_O, emfiles,
extra_objects): Add config/ prefix.
* doc/as.texinfo: Rename to...
* doc/as.texi: ... this.
* doc/Makefile.am: Rename as.texinfo to as.texi throughout.
Remove DISTCLEANFILES hack.
(AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove 1.8, cygnus, add no-texinfo.tex and
info-in-builddir.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* doc/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* common/common-defs.h (PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_VERSION,
PACKAGE_STRING, PACKAGE_TARNAME): Undefine.
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ, add missing quoting.
* gnulib/configure.ac: Modernize usage of
AC_INIT/AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. Remove AC_PREREQ.
* gnulib/update-gnulib.sh (AUTOCONF_VERSION): Bump to 2.69.
(AUTOMAKE_VERSION): Bump to 1.15.1.
* configure: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* gnulib/aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* gnulib/config.in: Re-generate.
* gnulib/configure: Re-generate.
* gnulib/import/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ, add missing quoting.
* configure: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* configure: Re-generate.
gold/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ, add missing quoting and usage
of AC_LANG_SOURCE.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* testsuite/Makefile.in: Re-generate.
gprof/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* Makefile.am: Remove DISTCLEANFILES hack.
(AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove 1.11, add info-in-builddir.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* gconfig.in: Re-generate.
intl/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Add AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS, remove AC_PREREQ.
* configure: Re-generate.
* config.h.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
ld/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* Makefile.am: Remove DISTCLEANFILES hack, rename ld.texinfo to
ld.texi, ldint.texinfo to ldint.texi throughout.
(AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add info-in-builddir.
* README: Rename ld.texinfo to ld.texi, ldint.texinfo to
ldint.texi throughout.
* gen-doc.texi: Likewise.
* h8-doc.texi: Likewise.
* ld.texinfo: Rename to ...
* ld.texi: ... this.
* ldint.texinfo: Rename to ...
* ldint.texi: ... this.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
libdecnumber/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* configure: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4.
libiberty/ChangeLog:
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* configure: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
opcodes/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove 1.11.
* configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
readline/ChangeLog.gdb:
* configure: Re-generate.
* examples/rlfe/configure: Re-generate.
sim/ChangeLog:
* All configure.ac: Remove AC_PREREQ.
* All configure: Re-generate.
zlib/ChangeLog.bin-gdb:
* configure.ac: Modernize AC_INIT call, remove AC_PREREQ.
* Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Remove 1.8, cygnus, add
foreign.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* aclocal.m4: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
These changes were already accepted upstream in Readline,
but GDB did not yet import a newer Readline version.
readline/Changelog.gdb:
* util.c: Include rlshell.h.
(_rl_tropen) [_WIN32 && !__CYGWIN__]: Open the trace file in the
user's temporary directory.
* tcap.h [HAVE_NCURSES_TERMCAP_H]: Include ncurses/termcap.h.
* input.c (w32_isatty) [_WIN32 && !__CYGWIN__]: New function, to
replace isatty that is not reliable enough on MS-Windows.
(isatty) [_WIN32 && !__CYGWIN__]: Redirect to w32_isatty.
(rl_getc): Call _getch, not getch, which could be an ncurses
function when linked with ncurses, in which case getch will return
EOF for any keystroke, because there's no curses window.
* tilde.c (tilde_expand_word) [_WIN32]:
* histfile.c (history_filename) [_WIN32]: Windows-specific
environment variable to replace HOME if that is undefined.
* funmap.c (default_funmap): Compile rl_paste_from_clipboard on
all Windows platforms, not just Cygwin.
* readline.h (rl_paste_from_clipboard): Include declaration for
all Windows platforms.
* display.c (insert_some_chars, delete_chars): Don't use the
MinGW-specific code if linked with ncurses.
* configure.in:
* config.h.in: Support ncurses/termcap.h. The configure script
was updated accordingly.
* complete.c [_WIN32 && !__CYGWIN__]: Initialize
_rl_completion_case_fold to 1.
(printable_part, rl_filename_completion_function)
[_WIN32 && !__CYGWIN__]: Handle the drive letter.
This reverts commit b558ff043d.
This reverts commit 4a11f20659.
The initial import commit failed to retain local changes made to
readline's configure.in (and the commit message erroneously stated that
there were no local changes that needed to be reapplied). Also the
import caused a couple of build errors and a scattering of testsuite
regressions throughout many arches. It's probably better to start over
with this import, hopefully more carefully next time.
Since the sync to version 7.0-alpho, readline now by default builds
(unused) shared libraries alongside static libraries, whereas before it
only built static libraries. A couple of GDB buildbots were not happy
with this change:
http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/AIX-POWER7-plain/builds/240http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-i686/builds/1518
To get these buildbots building again, this patch alters readline's
configure.ac file to not build shared libraries by default, as was the
case with readline 6.2. A more permanent fix may be to alter the
top-level Makefile.def to pass --disable-shared to readline, or to
investigate why these building these shared libraries are giving the
buildbots trouble. (I think the proximate reason why the i686 buildbot
fails is because it passes CFLAGS=-m32 instead of CC="gcc -m32" to the
top-level configure script, and readline's linker commands don't inherit
CFLAGS. Not sure about the AIX failure.)
readline/ChangeLog.gdb:
* configure.ac: Default opt_shared_libs to no.
* configure: Regenerate.
This patch syncs our upstream copy of readline from version 6.2 to the
latest version, 7.0 alpha (released July 10 2015).
I essentially copied what was done the last time readline was synced,
when Jan updated to readline 6.2 in 2011:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00003.html
Procedure:
1. I extracted the readline-7.0-alpha tarball on top of readline/.
2. I deleted all the new files under doc/ that were deliberately omitted
before.
3. I regenerated readline/configure and readline/examples/rlfe/configure
using autoconf 2.64. No other configure files need regenerating.
4. I updated the function gdb_printable_part in completer.c with a
trivial change made to the readline function it is based off of,
printable_part in readline/complete.c. There is more work to be done in
completer.c to sync it with readline/complete.c, but it is non-trivial
and should probably be done separately anyway.
Local patches that had to be reapplied:
None. readline 7.0 alpha contains all of our local readline
patches.
New files in readline/:
colors.{c,h}
examples/{hist_erasedups,hist_purgecmd,rl-callbacktest,rlbasic}.c
parse-colors.{c,h}
readline.pc.in
configure.ac
Deleted files in readline/:
configure.in
Regressions:
After the sync there is one testsuite regression, the test
"signal SIGINT" in gdb.gdb/selftest.exp which now FAILs. Previously,
the readline 6.2 SIGINT handler would temporarily reinstall the
underlying application's SIGINT handler and immediately re-raise SIGINT
so that the orginal handler gets invoked. But now (since readline 6.3)
its SIGINT handler does not re-raise SIGINT or directly invoke the
original handler; it now sets a flag marking that SIGINT was raised, and
waits until readline explicitly has control to call the application's
SIGINT handler. Anyway, because SIGINT is no longer re-raised from
within readline's SIGINT handler, doing "signal SIGINT" with a stopped
inferior gdb process will no longer resume and then immediately stop the
process (since there is no 2nd SIGINT to immediately catch). Instead,
the inferior gdb process will now just print "Quit" and continue to run.
So with this commit, this particular test case is adjusted to reflect
this change in behavior (we now have to send a 2nd SIGINT manually to
stop it).
Aside from this one testsuite regression, I personally noticed no
regression in user-visible behavior. Though I only tested on x86_64
and on i686 Debian Stretch.
Getting this kind of change in at the start of the GDB 7.11 development
cycle will allow us to get a lot of passive testing from developers and
from bleeding-edge users.
readline/ChangeLog.gdb:
Import readline 7.0 alpha
* configure: Regenerate.
* examples/rlfe/configure: Regenerate.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* completer.c (gdb_printable_part): Sync with readline function
it is based off of.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.gdb/selftest.exp (test_with_self): Update test to now
expect the GDB inferior to no longer immediately stop after
being resumed with "signal SIGINT".
* readline/complete.c (pwd.h): Guard with HAVE_PWD_H.
(getpwent): Guard with HAVE_GETPWENT.
(rl_username_completion_function): Guard use of getpwent.
(endpwent): Likewise.
* readline/config.h.in (HAVE_FCNTL): New macro.
(HAVE_GETPWENT): Likewise.
(HAVE_GETPWNAM): Likewise.
(HAVE_GETPWUID): Likewise.
(HAVE_KILL): Likewise.
(HAVE_PWD_H): Likewise.
* readline/configure: Regenerated.
* readline/configure.in: Handle MinGW when cross compiling. Check for
getpwnam, getpwent, getpwuid, kill, and pwd.h.
* readline/display.c (rl_clear_screen): Treat Windows like DOS.
(insert_some_chars): Likewise.
(delete_chars): Likewise.
* readline/shell.c (pwd.h): Guard with HAVE_PWD_H.
(getpwuid): Guard with HAVE_GETPWUID.
(sh_unset_nodelay_mode): Guard use of fnctl with HAVE_FNCTL_H.
* readline/signals.c (rl_signal_handler): Don't use SIGALRM or
SIGQUIT if not defined. Use "raise" if "kill" is not available.
(rl_set_signals): Don't set handlers for SIGQUIT or SIGALRM if
they are not defined.
(rl_clear_signals): Likewise.
* readline/tilde.c (pwd.h): Guard with HAVE_PWD_H.
(getpwuid): Guard declaration with HAVE_GETPWUID.
(getpwnam): Guard declaration with HAVE_GETPWNAM.
(tilde_expand_word): Guard use of getpwnam with HAVE_GETPWNAM.
Simon Marchi
Eli Zaretskii
Patrick Palka
Yao Qi
Jan Kratochvil
Ralf Wildenhues
Daniel Jacobowitz
Elena Zannoni
Mark Kettenis
Mark Mitchell
Joel Brobecker
Kris Warkentin
Christopher Faylor
Jason Molenda
Stan Shebs