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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 08:24:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64
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On 05/09/2013 8:08 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>> Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages.  You
>>> will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files
>>> in those packages with newer ones from
>>> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ because it won't guess your system
>>> correctly.
>>>
>>> Twice now I've seen on config-patches a report submitted because of this.
>>>
>> The versions installed into /usr/share/automake-X.Y/ have all been modified
>> to be the latest upstream as of mid-July -- for all X.Y from 1.4 to 1.14.
>>
>> Also, cygport itself ships with an identical copy, and modifying your script
>> to call 'gnuconfigize' during src_compile() will update them as well.
> That's fine if the user is using cygport but from the two I've seen on
> config-patches is that the user is executing a package configure where
> the package has an 11 year old config.guess and is not using cygport
> at all.
I would think that cygwin64 is the least of your worries if you're using 
an 11 year-old config.guess...

$0.02
Ryan


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