Re: Outdated GNU config (config.{sub,guess}) and autotools-dev
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Richard Braakman wrote:
> 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 :-)
These files (at least, config.sub) will always be used when cross-compiling,
in order to canonicalize the target name. So, they're not just needed by bad
autoconf scripts. :)
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
Reply to: