#22 Please consider updating autotools

[TinySnow]

Hello, I'm from ArchRISC-V Team, a community porting Arch Linux software to RISC-V architecture.

Porting records

Description
While packaging libicns, we found an error.

Error information

checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system type
This script, last modified 2009-11-20, has failed to recognize
the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
download the most up to date version of the config scripts from
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
and
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD
If the version you run (./config.guess) is already up to date, please
send the following data and any information you think might be
pertinent to <config-patches@gnu.org> in order to provide the needed
information to handle your system.

config.guess timestamp = 2009-11-20

uname -m = riscv64
uname -r = 5.18.7-arch1-1
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 25 Jun 2022 20:22:01 +0000

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     =

hostinfo               =
/bin/universe          =
/usr/bin/arch -k       =
/bin/arch              =
/usr/bin/oslevel       =
/usr/convex/getsysinfo =

UNAME_MACHINE = riscv64
UNAME_RELEASE = 5.18.7-arch1-1
UNAME_SYSTEM  = Linux
UNAME_VERSION = #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 25 Jun 2022 20:22:01 +0000
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

Solved

Addedautoreconf in the prepare() function in the PKGBUILD. It can solve this problem.
Here is the code:

autoupdate
autoreconf -fiv

Advice

Please consider updating the configure script tools(Especially config.guess file).
We solved it through patch we create, however, as part of our duty, we do suggest our upstreams doing this once and for all instead.

Sincerely thanks.
:)

ArchRISC-V Team,
TinySnow

[Paul Wise]

config.guess is not in the git repository, only the release tarballs.

Please re-run the autogen script during your build process to update
the config.guess file. Your distribution should be doing this for every
package already, otherwise you can't be sure that you will be able to
rebuild the configure/Makefile files.

The next release tarball will of course update config.guess.

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