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

[Earnie Boyd]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ben Elliston wrote:
>
> First, this does not solve the problem because it requires that every
> package get a new version of config.guess.  We're trying to overcome
> having to modify every package.

So that's your objection to the symlink/copy idea as well?

> Second, I don't like the idea of doing things that surprise users.  That will
> confuse people.

It also causes recursiveness so the idea is lame unless we also trap
the recursive nature to one instance.  I don't think it is that
confusing but perhaps --with-config-dir=/path/to/config files might be
nice and configure would execute the config.guess and config.sub in
that directory or error if the files do not exist or are unreadable.

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