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Subject: Re: config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> 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...

Yes, especially since the output of config.guess suggests using a new
version giving the ftp URI to use and the user blindly copies and
pastes that output to email without first trying to use a more current
version.  It is the mindset of ISJWWP.

ISJWWP - It should just work without problems

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