Re: config.guess & config.sub

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, david wrote:

> I don't know what the problem is: these files are auto-generated during the
> release process so they ARE always "updated". I think that autoconf generates
> these files and I am currently using the version of autoconf (autoconf [GNU
> Autoconf] 2.61) that comes with OpenSuSe 10.3.

That's the problem: The files keep evolving while the ones included in
autoconf 2.61 do not.

In Debian we moved those files to a new package called autotools-dev
which contains just config.sub and config.guess, so they are updated often.
According to the README in autotools-dev, there are more up-to-date
files here:

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub

Thanks.