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

[Ben Elliston]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:54:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

> There are thousands of copies of config.guess/sub (or configure
> scripts) out there (in tarballs) with no support for this at
> all. Once it is added to config.guess/sub in git (or autoconf) then
> it will take many years before the majority of copies of
> config.guess/sub (or configure scripts) have support for this. This
> is what I mean by bootstrap phase.

Right.  Just thinking out loud: isn't the Autoconf concept of "aux
dir" of use here?  That's where configure looks for config.guess.

The latest version of install-sh, config.guess, etc. could live in
such a system-wide directory.  Unfortunately, it's not possible to set
auxdir from the configure command line as you can with --srcdir, etc.

Ben

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