[PATCH] Bump config.sub and config.guess to latest versions

Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk at redhat.com
Mon Feb 23 09:20:56 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:29 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:14:31 +0100
> Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 08:07 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Please see the linked patch[0] which bumps config.sub and
> > > config.guess to latest versions.
> > > 
> > > This is needed to support new architectures. I'll post a patch for
> > > AVR32 shortly.
> > 
> > I just checked: autoreconf -fvi regenerates these files anyway,
> > and since strace cvs does not have *all* autoconf-generated files
> > anyway (at least configure is missing), I assumed all users
> > of the cvs tree run "autoreconf -fvi" or something equivalent.
> > 
> 
> Sort of, but this assumes you have a up to date autoconf on your
> computer. Not all distos have updated config.sub and config.guess.

I don't understand. Without autoconf, you can build cvs tree:

# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Thus, atoconf is a requirement. And if it is present,
it will generate new config.sub and config.guess.

What am I missing?
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vda






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