Re: [RFC] pass #2 at getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

2012-10-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 10:03:09PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/08/2012 09:27 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 20:46 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > >> So, Debian is in the process of bringing up our upcoming arm64 port. > >> Unfortunately we are also coming across lots of packages

Re: [RFC] pass #2 at getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

2012-10-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/12/2012 05:46 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: >> I still prefer the idea of being able to set an environment variable, >> $CONFIG_GUESS, rather than going hunting ourselves. Then, porting to a >> new config.guess script is a matter of calling: >> >> ./configure CONFIG_GUESS=/path/to/new/version >> >>