Re: config.sub and config.status in the diff?

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@club-internet.fr>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:18:16AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Hi Bob!
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> > martin f krafft wrote:
> > >   cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> > >   cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
> > > 
> > > This has the effect that config.s{ub,tatus} are included in the
> > > generated .diff.gz file. Is this the intention? I think they should
> > > not be part of the diff. What's the motivation here?
> > 
> > Sometimes the upstream files use libtool, which uses config.guess, and
> > config.guess is too old to recognize one of the non-x86 architectures
> > such as ia64.  Something needs to happen to enable the package to
> > build on those architectures.  Updating the config.guess is just
> > natural.  That it is included in the diff.gz is just a side-effect.
> 
> Why not just replacing the config.sub and config.guess by the original
> versions in the clean target?  That way, the files will still be up to
> dat during the build, but won't be distributed in the diff.gz.

If you use dpatch:

/usr/share/doc/dpatch/examples/dpatch/01_config.dpatch.gz

does exactly this.

-Ralf.
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