Re: Run automake to create config.sub without any Makefile.am

[Roger Pau Monné]

2012/1/10 Mike Frysinger <address@hidden>:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2012 03:38:03 Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> 2012/1/10 Eric Blake:
>> > On 01/09/2012 03:46 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> >> AC_CANONICAL_HOST
>> >
>> > As documented in
>> > https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Canonicalizing
>> > , if you use AC_CANONICAL_*, then _you_ are responsible for providing
>> > config.sub in the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (default '.') directory.  You can
>> > meet this requirement by using automake, or you can meet it by doing 'cp
>> > /some/path/to/config.sub .' by hand.  [Hint - if you built autoconf from
>> > source, then your autoconf source tree includes those files under the
>> > build-aux/ subdirectory]
>>
>> Thanks for the tip, I didn't know AC_CANONICAL_HOST was causing this.
>> Since I only used this macro to get the OS name, I've replaced it with
>> `uname -s`, and forget about config.sub and config.guess.
>
> oh god, please do not do that.  that's the exact sort of thing you should
> _never_ do.  you've just broken any hope of properly cross-compiling your
> package.

Thanks for the tip, I've removed the `uname -s` hack and copied the
necessary files. Also since the package is only available to NetBSD
and Linux the hack would only prevent cross-compiling from Linux to
NetBSD and viceversa.