Package: autoconf Version: 2.61-8 Severity: normal
If a system is installed at a build level of say i486, ie the kernel is vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-486, the generated configure scripts may use a build level above this, even though the system is supposed to be i486 compatible. We have chosen a 486 build level for compatibility across all machines i486 or higher. When building packages using ./configure, the autoconf tool reports: checking build system type... i686-pc-linux checking host system type... i686-pc-linux I believe that this is not correct and should read: checking build system type... i486-pc-linux checking host system type... i486-pc-linux Using a level above our selected build level, may produce compatibility problems if the compiled packages are moved to a 486 machine, or to other machines compatible with, but higher than our i486 build level, and indeed higher than our installed system level. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages autoconf depends on: ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii m4 1.4.11-1 a macro processing language ii perl 5.10.0-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages autoconf recommends: ii automake [automaken] 1:1.10.1-3 A tool for generating GNU Standard Versions of packages autoconf suggests: pn autobook <none> (no description available) pn autoconf-archive <none> (no description available) pn autoconf-doc <none> (no description available) pn autoconf2.13 <none> (no description available) ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities pn gnu-standards <none> (no description available) ii libtool 1.5.26-4 Generic library support script -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
