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Re: autogen.sh warnings
From: |
Felix Zielcke |
Subject: |
Re: autogen.sh warnings |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:20:54 +0100 |
Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 23:54 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > The real purpose of automake is to create a Makefile.in for
> configure.
> > GRUB doesn't use it for that. Is there any reason to not just add
> the
> > three files to the bzr repository and remove the automake line
> from
> > autogen.sh?
>
> These files do change from time to time, in ways that are important;
> for
> example, config.guess and config.sub are updated to support new
> architectures or new variants of existing architectures. It's best to
> have this done automatically rather than doing it once manually and
> then
> forgetting about it.
>
Well in the past I did sync config.guess and config.sub from the git
repository for them once in a while, when I noticed the changes for them
could be good for us.
So if people use outdated autotools it means a downgrade for them.
--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, (continued)
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Bruce Dubbs, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Bruce Dubbs, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Colin Watson, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Bruce Dubbs, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings, Colin Watson, 2009/12/07
- Building system (Re: autogen.sh warnings), Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/12/07
- Re: Building system (Re: autogen.sh warnings), Bruce Dubbs, 2009/12/07
- Re: autogen.sh warnings,
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