Re: build modifies config.guess and config.sub

[Perry E. Metzger]

On 7/29/21 02:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > 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".

Couldn't we just not check in those two files?

Perry