Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 16 May 2013, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 16:30 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 May 2013 23:53:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > yes, Gentoo fixed this for every package in our tree like 9 years ago
> > FWIW, we do the same thing in Buildroot
> 
> Yes, it is a very common hack in all of the distros.
> It would be nice if that wasn't necessary in the first place though.

Yes.  It would have been really useful if autofoo used whatever is in
/usr/share/misc, unless there is a config.sub.override or
config.guess.override file in the source directory (or even better,
something pointed to by environment variables), and deprecate
source-directory config.guess and config.sub.

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