Re: Outdated GNU config (config.{sub,guess}) and autotools-dev
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> This post is basically the README.Debian of the autotools-dev package. It's
> being sent here just so that nobody can claim not knowing about it ;)
>
> If any of the packages you maintain or are going to NMU use config.sub or
> config.guess, you are well advised to read it.
>...
You should know what you are doing when you update config.guess and
config.sub. One example: Upstream of mtools doesn't like "Stallmanisms",
that means he did a s/linux-gnu/linux/g over config.guess, config.sub and
configure.in. In this case every copying of config.guess and config.sub
will give you completely non-working mtools on ARM. That means trying to
run one of the programs will result in a:
Mtools has not been correctly compiled
Recompile it using a more recent compiler
cu
Adrian
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