Instructions to send a Patch

[Vaibhav Gupta]

On Thu, 30 May, 2019, 12:52 AM Gedare Bloom, <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:23 PM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:47 AM Aditya Upadhyay <aadit0402 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:42 PM Vaibhav Gupta <
> vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hello, okay I will keep that in mind.
> >> > .
> >> > .
> >> > .
> >> > .
> >> > But there is one problem with this patch then.
> >> > .
> >> > .
> >> > If i just copy-paste ndbm.h, db.h(needed by ndbm.h) and ndbm.c and
> make the entry of ndbm.c  in Makefile.am.
> >> > Then run 'autoreconf' to add the entry for ndbm.c in Makefile.in.
> And then run `make` command. There will be compilation error.
> >> > .
> >>
> >> See Instructions here about regenerating the configuration files in
> newlib.
> >> https://sourceware.org/newlib/README
> >> Newlib uses a specific version of autoconf. You can use `autoreconf
> >> -fvi` command to regenerate that
> >> Makefile.in file.
> >
> > Okay
> >>
> >>
> >> > Header files needed by libc/posic/*.c files are present in
> libc/include directory. It is default path.
> >> > .
> >> > But ndbm.c also requires "hash.h" which is present inside
> "libc/search".
> >> > .
> >> > To over come it, i had to modify the entry of ndbm.c in Makefile.in
> and add "-I (topr_srcdir)/search" to specify the compiler for alternative
> source path.
> >>
> >> If you specify any header file inclusion in Makefile.am, then you will
> >> need to add the things manually
> >> and when you will run autoreconf command, this .in file will get
> updated.
> >>
> > I guess I will need to modify configure.in file. If I am not wrong that
> is responsible for what autoreconf is doing.
>
> You shouldn't be manually modifying any *.in files.
>
Okay!

>
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