Re: config.guess & config.sub

[david]

   Santiago Vila wrote:

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:

[1]http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.gues
s
[2]http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub

Thanks.


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   Why  do the files need to be changed? It's a pretty crap system in the
   autotools if they expect everyone to keep chasing their moving goalposts.

References

   1. 
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess
   2. 
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub
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