From: Soren A <sor...@fa...> - 2002-09-26 03:54:03
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Earnie Boyd <ear...@ya...> wrote around 25 Sep 2002 news:3D9...@ya...: > Yes, it's important to update the config.guess and config.sub files from > ftp.gnu.org/gnu/config when porting a package to a new platform. Some > of the standards, such as supplying the files in the source tarball, get > in the way of the effort. These two should be a forced external > dependency, IMO, not that MO is worth much w.r.t. this issue. ;) > > Earnie. I strongly agree with this, not that my opinion is weighty either. I've thought (uh-oh, more vaporware arriving ... ;-) several times that some sort of script that would interrogate a newly-unpacked source tree for presence of 'config.sub' and 'config.guess' files and then replace them with up to date versions would be worth writing. I'll bet perl would be the tool to do it, too. Best, Soren A |