Re: Using automake to install config.sub and config.guess

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 23:58, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "William" == William S Fulton <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  William> We are using AC_CANONICAL_HOST which requires config.sub and
>  William> config.guess. We'd like to pick these files up from automake which
>  William> regularly updates these on each automake release. We are using
>  William> automake but not libtool so can't use libtoolize which is able to
>  William> install them. Also
> 
>  William> automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
> 
> There is a fix for this bug in CVS.  Automake 1.9.1 will update
> these files on such incantation.

Could you elaborate on which conditions exactly, automake-1.9.1 will
update config.guess and config.sub and how this will influence
autoreconf?

Note that they must not be unconditionally updated, because packages may
be using customized config.guess's and config.sub's.

Ralf