Re: [RFC] Hits/directions to using autoconf and friends in Debian
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 09:30:09PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> My experience is that by far not all packages that use
> autoconf/automake need config.{sub,guess}. AFAIK the rule is, that you
> need config.{sub,guess} if you use one or more of:
>
> (a) libtool
> (b) AC_CANONICAL_HOST
> (c) AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
Also gettext (#100038, but upstream didn't seem terribly interested in
changing this). This unfortunately introduces the need for triplet
knowledge into packages that are otherwise entirely
architecture-agnostic.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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