[haiku-development] Re: config.guess/.sub
- From: Hung Nguyen <hu28me@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:55:52 +0700
I agree with Scott Mc. When I try to compile GNU/Linux software to run in
Haiku, the first thing I always have to do is replace these config files. So
I also these file should always up-to-date with any newer Haiku version and
other GNU software packages.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:29 PM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any reason why we're not including the latest config.guess /
> config.sub files from gnulib in haiku, rather than patching older
> versions to add haiku support to them?
> The latest versions can be obtained from gnulib:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/config.guess
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/config.sub
> I usually look for the timestamp and if I see a timestamp of 1-23-2008
> or earlier I assume it's not been updated for Haiku.
> This is probably the number one issue I run into when trying to port a
> package, is that they have an old (sometimes years old) config.guess,
> so when sending patches back upstream I usually remind them to also
> update those files.
> -scottmc
>
>
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