Bug#230945: numerix_0.19-1(ia64/unstable): FTBFS: config.guess out of date

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:36:43AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
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> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:21 am, lamont@debian.org wrote:
> > Package: numerix
> > Version: 0.19-1
> > Severity: serious
> [snip]
> > > cp /usr/share/misc/config.guess /usr/share/misc/config.sub .
> > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=ia64-linux \
> > >             --build=ia64-linux \
> > >             --enable-ocaml_bignum --enable-gmp
> > > checking build system type... Invalid configuration `ia64-linux': machine
> > > `ia64' not recognized configure: error: /bin/sh config/config.sub
> > > ia64-linux failed
> > > make: *** [config-stamp] Error 1
> >
> > A full build log can be found at:
> > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=ia64&pkg=numerix&ver=0.19-1
> >
> > See the autotools-dev README for some ideas on keeping config.guess
> > current.
> 
> I believe that I have followed the practice recommended in autotools-dev; the 
> ia64-linux setting came from:
> 
> DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
> 
> and similarly for DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE.  The configure script is generated prior 
> to upload; the included version was generated with autoconf 2.59.
> 
> I suspect that the problem is out-of-date autotools-dev on ia64, since on my 
> system the handling of ia64-* is done in config.sub and config.guess, which I 
> copy from /usr/share/misc at build time.  Can you help me establish what 
> version is needed to build correctly?

Lamont, any further info on this problem ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther