Outdated config.guess and config.sub

Outdated config.guess and config.sub

[Pascal Giard]

Hi guys,
 FWIW the 14.4.1 source tarball contains outdated versions of
config.guess and config.sub .

It's not a big deal as I can easily workaround this and update them
for Debian, but it may be useful to users if you could include the
latest ones in the next releases.

This can be done by e.g. calling "autoreconf --force".

Cheers,

-Pascal
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Re: Outdated config.guess and config.sub

[Ulrich Klauer]

Pascal Giard <evilynux@gmail.com>:

>  FWIW the 14.4.1 source tarball contains outdated versions of
> config.guess and config.sub .
>
> It's not a big deal as I can easily workaround this and update them
> for Debian, but it may be useful to users if you could include the
> latest ones in the next releases.
>
> This can be done by e.g. calling "autoreconf --force".

Perhaps we should make this run unconditionally in release.sh. Running  
the script will take a few seconds more, but we'd be sure to have the  
most recent versions in each release.

Ulrich


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Re: Outdated config.guess and config.sub

[Ulrich Klauer]

> > This can be done by e.g. calling "autoreconf --force".
> Perhaps we should make this run unconditionally in release.sh. Running
> the script will take a few seconds more, but we'd be sure to have the
> most recent versions in each release.

As it turns out, "autoreconf --force" doesn't update the auxiliary  
files. "autoreconf --install --force" *does* do it, but also  
overwrites INSTALL. :-(  So the right way seems to be to delete the  
relevant files (config.guess, config.sub; depcomp, install-sh, missing  
as well? more?) and then run "autoreconf -i" without --force.

Ulrich


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Re: Outdated config.guess and config.sub

[Eric Wong]

Ulrich Klauer <ulrich@chirlu.de> wrote:
> > > This can be done by e.g. calling "autoreconf --force".
> > Perhaps we should make this run unconditionally in release.sh. Running
> > the script will take a few seconds more, but we'd be sure to have the
> > most recent versions in each release.
> 
> As it turns out, "autoreconf --force" doesn't update the auxiliary  
> files. "autoreconf --install --force" *does* do it, but also  
> overwrites INSTALL. :-(  So the right way seems to be to delete the  
> relevant files (config.guess, config.sub; depcomp, install-sh, missing  
> as well? more?) and then run "autoreconf -i" without --force.

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) seems to avoid clobbering INSTALL.
I'm no autotools expert, but I remember reading somewhere foreign
was recommended for nearly all non-GNU projects...

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ m4_ifdef([AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR], [AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])])
 dnl Find target architecture
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
 dnl create a config.h file (Automake will add -DHAVE_CONFIG_H)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(src/soxconfig.h)

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