Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/03/11/01:08:20
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> I know that GNU doesn't distribute the config.* files separately
> packaged (though frankly, I think they really should), but perhaps
> DJGPP should do so for its users. We could then include the
> DJGPP-specific config.site with this (small) package.
The idea is that config.site distributed with Bash should add whatever is
missing in it now. Mark did that for the versions released in the past.
As for other config.* files, they need to be changed in small ways as
Autoconf, Automake, libtool, and other development tools evolve. They
also have package-dependent names in a couple of places. So I'm not sure
having a standard set of these files would help more than just
downloading the latest port from SimTel. But if someone wants to make
such a package, please feel free. (Personally, I'd think that it is much
more important to explain all the subtleties those config.* files are
supposed to deal with, than just throw them together. So if someone is
up to documenting those things, it'd be great.)
> Is there any common agreement in the GNU community on where in the
> "standard" tree these files should be stored?
DJGPP does not have a standard home in the GNU tree hierarchy, AFAIK.
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