Hello, On Tue, 14 May 2013 23:53:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> yes, Gentoo fixed this for every package in our tree like 9 years ago > (we added a common function like 11 years ago that ebuilds could call > manually, but we found that didn't scale). when you run a standard > autoconf script, we automatically search for files named "config.sub" > and "config.guess" and replace them with the up-to-date host copy. > no checking or anything :). in hindsight, that seems like a bad > idea, but in practice, i think we have yet to find a package that > this doesn't actually work. FWIW, we do the same thing in Buildroot (a tool that builds embedded Linux systems from source, through cross-compilation). Never had any problem doing so. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
