On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:49:19 +0100 Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:15 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:20:56 +0100 > > Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote: <snipp typo fix> > > > # make > > > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. > > > > > > Thus, atoconf is a requirement. And if it is present, > > > it will generate new config.sub and config.guess. > > > > > > What am I missing? > > > If you have old config.sub and config.guess on your build machine, > > the AVR32 architecture is not present, thus the ./configure step > > will fail to identify the architecture. > > BUT autoreconf REWRITES THESE FILES ANYWAY. At least that is what I > see. > Yes, autoreconf rewrites them, but grabs them from your distribution. At least ubuntu does so, by fetching them from /usr/share/automake directory. On some distributions (old disties) these files are outdated. > What's the point in correcting these files if they are rewritten by > autoreconf and thus their "old" contents is irrelevant? > In the releases you do not have to do autoreconf, hence not having updated config.guess/sub there might make the newer architectures not work. Btw: the patch was "old", i.e. before I saw that you removed them completely from CVS. > Can you give me exact sequence of commands you use to build strace > from cvs tree, one which does not work with "bad" config.sub and > config.guess, but works with updated ones? > I think we agree, but are discussing two sides of the same matter? I agree with removing them, I just gave a heads up that the build system for releases needs to have quite new config.sub and config.guess which autoreconf will copy in to the project. -- Best regards, Hans-Christian Egtvedt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
