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On 31/08/2025 18:18, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> Christian Franke via Cygwin writes:
>> The cygport scripts from various automake packages run 'gnuconfigize'
>> which overwrite the upstream versions of config.guess and config.sub
>> with the now 5+ year old versions provided by cygport.
>>
>> $ cygcheck -f /usr/share/automake-1.18/config.guess
>> automake1.18-1.18.1-1
>>
>> $ cygcheck -f /usr/share/cygport/config.guess
>> cygport-0.37.2-1
>>
>> $ md5sum /usr/share/automake-1.*/config.guess
>> /usr/share/cygport/config.guess
>> cc0f5d60f7505c777959126329bcaca6 */usr/share/automake-1.10/config.guess
>> 559bc9e2fca45761389ce2f3140cec0c */usr/share/automake-1.11/config.guess
>> d9375ba9d0b8cfd7bb6737e3fc43984f */usr/share/automake-1.12/config.guess
>> eea34cf893bb060ee20189e256a8065a */usr/share/automake-1.13/config.guess
>> 467fb07b9fc0b8cf59750c8ca8b3f7d5 */usr/share/automake-1.14/config.guess
>> 467fb07b9fc0b8cf59750c8ca8b3f7d5 */usr/share/automake-1.15/config.guess
>> 467fb07b9fc0b8cf59750c8ca8b3f7d5 */usr/share/automake-1.16/config.guess
>> 467fb07b9fc0b8cf59750c8ca8b3f7d5 */usr/share/automake-1.17/config.guess
>> 467fb07b9fc0b8cf59750c8ca8b3f7d5 */usr/share/automake-1.18/config.guess
>> 467fb07b9fc0b8cf59750c8ca8b3f7d5 */usr/share/cygport/config.guess
>>
>> $ # ... same for config.sub ...
>>
>> $ grep ^timestamp /usr/share/cygport/config.*
>> /usr/share/cygport/config.guess:timestamp='2020-04-26'
>> /usr/share/cygport/config.sub:timestamp='2020-05-04'
>>
>> Upstream:
>> automake-1.18.1/lib/config.sub:timestamp='2024-05-27'
>>
>> Is this downgrade intentional?
> 
> Well, Yaakov obviously did that for some reason that is not really
> transparent to me now and started doing so much earlier than the version
> of the current file suggests (at leat in 2014).  From the comments, what
> he wanted to do is keep a newer version that made it into cygport via a
> submodule in data/gnuconfig… which has never been updated since Yaakov
> dropped maintenance, most likely because that wasn't really on the radar
> until now.  Now, I could certainly rip out the gnuconfigize from the
> autotools packages 1.16+ since these would all come with later versions
> of these files, but I have no idea what secondary effects this will
> have.
Yeah, this all lines up with me taking over as maintainer and not 
realizing these needed keeping up to date.

I've added an action to my release checklist for cygport, so hopefully 
this won't be an issue in future...

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