Re: Need help with Bug#217974: ttt_1.7-1(ia64/unstable): FTBFS: config.guess out of date (at least)

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:24:54AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:13:14AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:41:31AM +0100, Thomas Scheffczyk wrote:
> > > I checked the file 'config.guess'. 'ia64' is defined and should be 
> > > recognized. Without access to a computer of this architecture I don't 
> > > know how to handle this error. Perhaps anybody of you can give me a clue.
> > 
> > Add to your debian/rules file this target, and add a dipendency to autotools
> > to clean target.
> > Don't forget to add autotools to PHONY, and add debscripts and autotools-dev
> > to build deps.
> > 
> > # The autotools target adds forced build-time dependencies on
> > # autotools-dev (for /usr/share/misc/config.*) and debscripts (for dch)
> > # It's also a .PHONY make target.
> > autotools:
> 
> Or just copy in updated config.guess and config.sub files manually each
> time it becomes necessary; that way you might also remember to tell
> upstream that they should update their copies, which is something a good
> Debian maintainer should be doing.

dh_make created for me in debian/rules these lines:

ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""
        cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" ""
        cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
endif
                                                                                     

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 

Geert Stappers