Re: Outdated GNU config (config.{sub,guess}) and autotools-dev
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:06:04AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Note the "associated interface definition files". BTW, you are too narrow
> in your interpretation. Providing all these sources i one way to comply
> with the license. This is 3. a). There are also 3. b) and 3. c) [the
> latter is not usable for Debian because of non-commercial restrictions].
... and complying with one of the three is enough.
> > I emphasize again that, in the vast majority of autoconf-using packages, the
> > exact version of config.sub that's used has no impact on the compiled binary,
> > so long as it's a version of config.sub that supports the target platform.
>
> Yes, those are exactly the cases where the whole issue doesn't apply to. If
> those were the only cases, we would need this feature in the first place!
Of course I wanted to write "we would not need this feature".
Thanks,
Marcus
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