Re: dh_make debian/rules clean target
Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> writes:
> config.sub and config.guess are files beloging to much ./configure
> scripts helping them to determine the architecture compiling on/for.
>
> Unfortunately, many upstream do not hold them up to date, so much of
> them do not know architectures like s390....
Am I the only one considering autoconf broken because of this?
I thought one of the reasons for using autoconf was that the user (of
autoconf---that is upstream) didn't have to know about all the
architectures out there.
Wouldn't it had been better if there were some way for the operating
system to provide these informations to configure instead of demanding
that the upstream should provide them. Most of the time I would guess
the OS could do a much better job telling configure how it worked.
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