Re: question on dh_make

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Andrea Bedini <andrea@beb0s.shacknet.nu> wrote:
[dh-make]
>        -test -r /usr/share/misc/config.sub && \
>          cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
>        -test -r /usr/share/misc/config.guess && \
>          cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
 
> it seems that it tryies to copy standard config.sub and config.guess,
> why?

because the ones shipped by upstream tend to be outdated.

> or better what I've missed to read ? :-)

/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
         hth, cu andreas