Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 14 May 2013 23:53:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> yes, Gentoo fixed this for every package in our tree like 9 years ago
> (we added a common function like 11 years ago that ebuilds could call
> manually, but we found that didn't scale).  when you run a standard
> autoconf script, we automatically search for files named "config.sub"
> and "config.guess" and replace them with the up-to-date host copy.
> no checking or anything :).  in hindsight, that seems like a bad
> idea, but in practice, i think we have yet to find a package that
> this doesn't actually work.

FWIW, we do the same thing in Buildroot (a tool that builds embedded
Linux systems from source, through cross-compilation). Never had any
problem doing so.

Best regards,

Thomas
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