On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:51:52AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 16-Mar-06, 07:49 (CST), Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > This bug is really old now, and the fix is trivial.  I'd appreciate that you
> > remember about it on your next upload.
> 
> Sorry, don't know why I've missed it...
> 
> But, now that I look at it, I don't understand. Isn't the whole point
> of 'configure' that it work on any system, without requiring autotools?
> I know from experience that the whole autotools stack is a complete
> piece of crap, but this request seems to completely invalidate it's very
> reason for existence.

Yes.  If you don't want to update config.guess/config.sub automaticaly, you can
just update them once.  That will suffice for kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64.

> Would removing config.guess and config.sub from the distribution solve
> the problem?

No.  They're helper files for the configure script, it won't build anywhere
without them.

-- 
Robert Millan


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to