Bug#3172: Autoconf does not provide config.guess, config.sub etc.
Package: autoconf
Version: 2.10-1
The autoconf package does not provide the files one needs to distribute
autoconf-igured packages, namely (incomplete list):
mkinstalldirs install.sh
config.guess config.sub
a sample INSTALL file
In addition to that, config.guess should certainly be able to differentiate
between debian, slackware and redhat releases (maybe by looking for a
specific file, eventually created for this purpose, like /etc/debian;
IMHO looking for /var/lib/dpkg or /etc/alternatives to characterize
Debian is not a good thing because one may want to try to install dpkg
on another kind of system; maybe the debian package system is not
really installable on another system (I mean how will you install any
package providing your libc does not come from a libc debian
package?), but the rpm manager can be installed successfully on a
non-RH system).
Yves.
Mark W. Eichin writes:
> Yeah, I was thinking about that -- since in some recent discussions,
> I was trying to find them and had to go to the sources :-) If you
> could file this request as a bug, I'll remember to deal with it.
> (I'll see if I can get the upstream maintainers to come up with a
> place to install them as well...)
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