Hi Folks,
I need your help!
Over the last weeks I've been writing an introductory chapter
for the Automake manual. Now I could use some proofreading
eyes, especially since I'm a foreigner. Other suggestions
welcome too, of course.
My objective is (at least) threefold:
- I want to present to
Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> New platforms are introduced very slowly (and more slowly every year).
This is not my experience. I have to update config.{sub,guess} for a new
platform at user request at least once a year, whereas changed platform
names have never caused a problem
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Bob Proulx wrote:
I think someone reading your response will then be scared to update
the config.guess because you say it breaks a matched set. But I think
that fear is unwarranted and in most cases the script *must* be
updated in order to work on new platforms.
New platf
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> It may be considered a good thing to some, but it is not necessarily a
> good thing. Consider that the rest of the build package (e.g.
> libtool) is expecting particular host identifications and that
> sometimes the behavior of these scripts change.
Only very rarely wi
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Bob Proulx wrote:
The point of this is that automatically updating the config.guess and
config.sub scripts is considered a good thing.
It may be considered a good thing to some, but it is not necessarily a
good thing. Consider that the rest of the build package (e.g.
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