Re: Linda warnings
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:31:31PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Roberto C. Sanchez]
> > > W: toshutils; The file config.guess contains a timestamp line that is less than 2002.
> > > The autoconf file shown above contains a timestamp variable that has a
> > > year that is less than 2002. This means you need to update your
> > > autoconf files, as the current files will make it hard for your
> > > package to auto-build.
> > > W: toshutils; The file config.sub contains a timestamp line that is less than 2002.
>
> Build-depend on autotools-dev, and copy /usr/share/misc/config.guess
> and config.sub into place at build time. ln -fs also works. It's a
> very light build dep, so there's not much point in patching the right
> files into the source diff.gz. (However, note that if you don't want
> to bloat your diff.gz you may wish to mv the old files out of the way,
> and mv them back in your 'clean' target.)
If you are using dpatch then consider using a patch like
/usr/share/doc/dpatch/examples/dpatch/01_config.dpatch.gz
which does the updating of config.{guess,sub}.
-Ralf.
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