config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

[Robert McBroom]

On 9/4/2013 6:44 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2013-09-04 17:13, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>> Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages.  You
>>> will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files
>>> in those packages with newer ones from
>>> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ because it won't guess your system
>>> correctly.
>>
>> The versions installed into /usr/share/automake-X.Y/ have all been
>> modified to be the latest upstream as of mid-July -- for all X.Y from
>> 1.4 to 1.14.
>>
>> Also, cygport itself ships with an identical copy, and modifying your
>> script to call 'gnuconfigize' during src_compile() will update them as
>> well.
>
> Please note that cygautoreconf() and the other *_autoreconf() 
> functions already handle this automatically where applicable.
>
>
> Yaakov
>
Context to invoke these processes?

Robert McBroom


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