On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Ben Elliston wrote:
> When it comes to people building distro packages, here is another idea
> thinking out loud. What's wrong with ..
>
> $ find /tree/of/src/trees -name config.guess -exec ln -sf /etc/config.guess
> {} \;
>
People forgetting about the symlink during distribution of their
package. Not all systems support it. Using cp -f would be better.
> This puts the latest version into the tree, no patching required.
I tend to use a sub module repository and have config.guess and
config.sub in a directory (build-aux/) and I tell autoconf via
configure.ac where to find it.
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