Re: [PATCH] Check a number of paths for newer versions and run the newest one.

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 17:07 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

> This patch is useful for distributions like Debian that add new architectures
> and then have to update config.sub and config.guess in every single package
> that uses automake or have to workaround the problem by adding code to each
> package to copy in the latest versions of these scripts from another package
> containing the latest version of the scripts (autotools-dev in Debian).

So Debian is preparing an arm64 port and the bugs related to config.sub
and config.guess are starting to roll in. Perhaps it is time to revisit
this issue? I don't want the next Debian port after arm64 to have to
deal with this yet again.

http://bugs.debian.org/689607
http://bugs.debian.org/689610
http://bugs.debian.org/689611
http://bugs.debian.org/689612
http://bugs.debian.org/689613
http://bugs.debian.org/689614
http://bugs.debian.org/689615
http://bugs.debian.org/689617
http://bugs.debian.org/689618
http://bugs.debian.org/689619
http://bugs.debian.org/689620
http://bugs.debian.org/689621

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