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Re: metacity-setup .debs



On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:58:32AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 02:48, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> > The copy in the template rules file is because a lot of upstreams were
> > using ancient version of them and builds were failing on hppa, and some
> > of these weird archs debian supports.
> 
> True.  But config.{sub,guess} exist for a reason; I'm pretty sure some
> systems do need them.

Only when AC_CANONICAL_HOST is used.  Very few configure scripts
truly need the canonical OS names.  I think the most common case
is for packages that build shared libs.

Does metacity's configure.ac use it?

-S


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