Re: build modifies config.guess and config.sub

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:27:25 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > Am 28.07.2021 um 22:17 schrieb Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>:
> > 
> > Howdy, all!
> > 
> > Whenever I do a "git status" after cleaning up after a build, I learn that 
> > the files
> > 
> > build-aux/config.guess
> > build-aux/config.sub
> > 
> > have been modified. It's easy enough to do a "git restore" on them, but 
> > should they should actually be checked in? I thought they were supplied by 
> > the autotools?
> 
> This issue has been discussed earlier 
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00130.html), but 
> without conclusion.

There was a conclusion, from my POV:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00187.html

To make it more clear, this is an Autoconf misfeature, and if someone
wants to report a bug, it should be reported to the Autoconf
developers; we here have nothing we can do about this kind of
"progress".