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Re: Removal of config.sub and config.guess
- From: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- To: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- Cc: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at arm dot com>, "libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:53:03 +0000
- Subject: Re: Removal of config.sub and config.guess
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On 25 March 2014 11:18, Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com> wrote:
> Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [3] is fine with me, it results in a clone that builds and works out
>> of the box with released tools. I am less comfortable with [2]. It
>> isn't clear to me how many folks this issue will impact nor how long
>> the situation will continue.
>
> I just checked Fedora, RHEL and Debian (Wheezy), and the autotools as
> shipped come with config.* that include aarch64 support out of the box.
> So I'm not sure who we're trying to help here with this hack. Do we
> really have to do this?
OK, I only checked the latest autoconf release, if the distros are all
ahead of the game and shipping updated config.sub and config.guess
then there is no issue.
Thanks
/Marcus
>
> AG