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

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:36:20 +0100
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:38 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:49:19 +0100
> > Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:15 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:20:56 +0100
> > > > Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk at redhat.com> wrote:

<snipp>

> > In the releases you do not have to do autoreconf, hence not having
> > updated config.guess/sub there might make the newer architectures
> > not work.
> 
> I don't know how releases are prepared, I imagine autoreconf run is
> done and all resulting machinery (configure and stuff) is included.
> So these files would be generated (or updated) by this process anyway.
> 

Very good point, I guess I had a belief that config.sub and
config.guess was grabbed from CVS when doing a release. Hence updating
them to latest variants would be a good idea.

> > Btw: the patch was "old", i.e. before I saw that you removed them
> > completely from CVS.
> 
> I understand.
> 
> I don't understand how it could be helping before that removal.
> The only scenario I can imagine when it would work is if one copies
> cvs tree into an older *release* tree, and then runs configure (it is
> there because release tree has it). But this is a quite awkward way of
> building strace from cvs (makes sense only if one does not have
> autoconf?), and is prone to subtle problems (extra stale header files
> and such).
> 

Agreed, and if you want to work with CVS a proper development
environment is recommended anyway I guess.

> > > Can you give me exact sequence of commands you use to build strace
> > > from cvs tree, one which does not work with "bad" config.sub and
> > > config.guess, but works with updated ones?
> > >
> > 
> > I think we agree, but are discussing two sides of the same matter?
> 
> Looks like.
>

Good (-: I think I should probably blame Friday after lunch hacking.

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Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt