Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Eggert
"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The verification is complete for almost all the code, but Ben Elliston > (who, according to the FSF folks I talked to, owns these particular > files) has not responded to requests for help in verifying these files. That could be because he moved from Red

Re: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Eaton
On 4-Sep-2003, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It's not so clear how to wget their contents from Savannah. Try wget --output-file config.guess 'http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain' wget --output-file config

Re: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Smith
%% "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jwe> Maybe a better place to get the current versions of these files is jwe> here: jwe> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config/ jwe> It seems to me that instead of copying the files to the GNU ftp jwe> server (even if it could

Re: config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Smith
%% Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pe> The GNU FTP server has been frozen since late July; nothing new pe> has appeared on it. I don't know what the holdup is. It's not the entire server: the server was cracked (surely you heard about this?) and so they took off all the content until

config.sub, config.guess, and the GNU FTP site

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Eggert
The GNU FTP server has been frozen since late July; nothing new has appeared on it. I don't know what the holdup is. I suggest that we find a new home for config.guess and config.sub in the meantime. gnulib currently keeps copies of several files like that in one convenient place. It slurps the

Re: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}

2003-09-04 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "pds" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pds> I'm still waiting for _ANY_ kind of response here. pds> Doesn't anyone know or care about config.guess or config.sub anymore? For Automake 1.7.6b (announced a few days ago) I took the CVS versions of these files manually. I'm consideri

Re: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}

2003-09-04 Thread John W. Eaton
On 3-Sep-2003, Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm still waiting for _ANY_ kind of response here. | | Doesn't anyone know or care about config.guess or config.sub anymore? I sent the following reply on 23 Aug 2003, but apparently it was a victim of some Sobig.F filter even though it

Re: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}

2003-09-04 Thread Paul D. Smith
I'm still waiting for _ANY_ kind of response here. Doesn't anyone know or care about config.guess or config.sub anymore? %% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p> Hi Ben; p> I've been trying to build GNU make packages. Like some of the other GNU p> toolkits, my "make dist" process involves a wget