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Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping
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Thomas Petazzoni |
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Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems |
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Wed, 15 May 2013 16:30:36 +0200 |
Hello,
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
> (we added a common function like 11 years ago that ebuilds could call
> manually, but we found that didn't scale). when you run a standard
> autoconf script, we automatically search for files named "config.sub"
> and "config.guess" and replace them with the up-to-date host copy.
> no checking or anything :). in hindsight, that seems like a bad
> idea, but in practice, i think we have yet to find a package that
> this doesn't actually work.
FWIW, we do the same thing in Buildroot (a tool that builds embedded
Linux systems from source, through cross-compilation). Never had any
problem doing so.
Best regards,
Thomas
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- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Mike Frysinger, 2013/05/14
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Ralf Corsepius, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Mike Frysinger, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Ralf Corsepius, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Mike Frysinger, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Warren Young, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Mike Frysinger, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Russ Allbery, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Warren Young, 2013/05/16
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Mike Frysinger, 2013/05/22
Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems,
Thomas Petazzoni <=
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Russ Allbery, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Wookey, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Paul Wise, 2013/05/15
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, 2013/05/17
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Warren Young, 2013/05/17
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Paul Wise, 2013/05/18
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, 2013/05/18
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Pavel Raiskup, 2013/05/20
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Paul Wise, 2013/05/20
- Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems, Pavel Raiskup, 2013/05/20