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Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping
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Paul Wise |
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Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems |
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Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:27:46 +0800 |
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 12:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Personally, I've already started converting every package I maintain that
> uses Autoconf to using dh_autoreconf during the build.
Likewise.
> I wonder if that isn't a better long-term solution for Debian.
It is, but for DFSG item 2 reasons rather than this. As a solution for
this in Debian and outside Debian I don't think it scales as well.
Within Debian we would need to make everything use debhelper and make
debhelper do it by default, neither of which are likely. There are quite
a few distros, including proprietary ones, so I don't think this
approach scales outside of Debian either.
> config.guess/config.sub have caused the most frequent problems, but
> we've had problems in the past from old versions of Libtool as well,
> and dh_autoreconf resolves the entire problem (at least for packages
> for which it works).
Thanks, I guess I should prepare a patch for the libtool artefacts too.
> Paul, separately, if you haven't already, could you request that the
> Lintian checks for outdated config.guess/config.sub be updated for
> whatever version you need for arm64? We could also recommend
> dh_autoreconf at the same time, which might resolve a lot of these
> problems going forward.
Thanks for the suggestion, filed:
http://bugs.debian.org/690014
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- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, (continued)
Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Russ Allbery, 2012/10/08
Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Eric Blake, 2012/10/08
[RFC] pass #2 at getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Paul Wise, 2012/10/08