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

[Eric Blake]

On 05/18/2013 05:45 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 16:05 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> My original patch didn't allow overrides, here is an updated one.

I would MUCH rather see us honor a CONFIG_GUESS and CONFIG_SUB
environment variable, rather than baking in a PATH search.  This topic
has come up in the past, where I made the same request back then.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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