Re: Outdated GNU config (config.{sub,guess}) and autotools-dev

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:58:06PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> The config.guess and config.sub files, used by autoconf- and automake-
> generated scripts, need to be constantly updated to address new
> architectures.

IMHO only badly written autoconf scripts rely on these files.  The whole
point of autoconf is to identify specific features of a system, rather
than trying to guess based on the system type.

I have some packages that do include config.{sub,guess} files but do not
use them.  Verifying that took some work, though.  Do you know any way of
quickly checking if the configure scripts rely on these files?  The easiest
I have found so far is to delete them and try to build :-)

Richard Braakman