On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 23:58, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "William" == William S Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > William> We are using AC_CANONICAL_HOST which requires config.sub and > William> config.guess. We'd like to pick these files up from automake which > William> regularly updates these on each automake release. We are using > William> automake but not libtool so can't use libtoolize which is able to > William> install them. Also > > William> automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing > > There is a fix for this bug in CVS. Automake 1.9.1 will update > these files on such incantation.
Could you elaborate on which conditions exactly, automake-1.9.1 will update config.guess and config.sub and how this will influence autoreconf? Note that they must not be unconditionally updated, because packages may be using customized config.guess's and config.sub's. Ralf
