Re: Outdated GNU config (config.{sub,guess}) and autotools-dev
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Adam Heath <adam@lapdoog.doogie.brainfood.com>:
> > Build-Depend: autotools-dev
> >
> > cp -a /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> >
> > There is no need for special casing it, if you build-depend. Using -a, the
> > timestamps will be copied, so it won't fool make needlessly.
>
> This assumes that the autotools-dev package installed on the system doing
> the compilation will always have a version at least as new as the one in
> the source directory. This is a fragile assumption - it would be less
> fragile if the Build-Depends would be versioned, but that's more work
> and more error prone than writing a script to update the files.
If there is no versioned build-depends, then the newest has to be installed on
the building machine. I don't know if that is defined, but it seems like the
only sane way to handle it.
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