Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules:
>
> 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
>
> Three questions:
> - why are these two files copied in?
> - are they necessary for the build of the program I am packaging?
> - they make my .diff.gz file twice their otherwise size; can I delete
> that entry from my rules file altogether, or otherwise remove them from
> the output?
Three days ago there was
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200311/msg00030.html
with these lines:
| 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.
|
| Cheers,
|
| --
| Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
> tia
> zen
>
Geert Stappers
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