Re: autogen.sh warnings

[Felix Zielcke]

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So if people use outdated autotools it means a downgrade for them.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer