Re: One global config.guess?
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:26:46PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen several bug reports from the people working on the arm and mips
> ports of Debian saying that a package's config.guess is too old. This
> problem will appear with every new architecture and many packages.
>
> My proposal is to include one global config.guess (and perhaps a
> config.sub, too) for all packages in Debian (perhaps in the
> build-essential package?). I see two possibilities how to force packages
> using this global config.guess:
>
> 1. include in the policy that every package has to replace it's
> config.guess (if there's one) by links to the global one
>
> 2. include in the build scripts to replace all config.guess with links
> before compiling
Uhh, that is what autoconf/automake is for. It will regenerate your
configure and config.{sub,guess}. Your debian/rules file can call these
routines.
However, most upstream should do this on their own, you should fix the
bugs locally, and forward them upstream.
Ben
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