Re: AVR32 port - config.{sub,guess} bug filing
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:41:52PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As some of you may be aware, myself and a few others are working towards
> > an AVR32 port of Debian, which is now making good progress. One problem
> > we've come across is since AVR32 is such a new architecture, a fair few
> > packages have config.{sub,guess} files that are missing the architecture
> > and hence fail to build. Since things are coming along nicely now, I feel
> > it might be appropriate to start filing wishlist bugs for these, but since
> > there are quite a large number of packages with this problem, it could
> > easily be regarded as mass filing. So I thought I'd ask here first for
> > people's thoughts comments on this matter. Thanks.
> >
>
> I guess the proper solution is copying config.{sub,guess} from /usr/share/misc/
> and removing them in clean. If that is the case, wouldn't the list of possibly buggy
> packages be [1]?
Note that this list can hide some truth, such as packages depending on
autotools-dev but either not using its files, not putting them in the
proper place, or putting them in a place which is not proper anymore.
The last two happened to me, though the packages are now fixed
(one because there were several sets of config.{guess,sub} files used
during build, and another because upstream moved the files)
Mike
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