Rob Landley wrote:

> On Monday 03 November 2008 05:39:08 Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > Jeremy Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I meant that I'll never have a problem with
> > > a properly configured toolchain that wouldn't also be a problem with
> > > buildroot. Buildroot won't magically solve problems with broken packages.
> >
> > Magic or not, one thing buildroot does is update the config.sub and
> > config.guess scripts distributed with the package to non-ancient
> > versions which know about avr32. That tends to solve a lot of problems.
> >
> > But it's certainly not something that can't be done manually, of
> > course. Most distributions seem to carry reasonably up-to-date versions
> > of config.sub and config.guess in /usr/share/misc or somewhere else.
> > You just need to remember to update them for almost every package you
> > compile.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/share/misc
> magic  magic.mgc  magic.mime  magic.mime.mgc  pci.ids  usb.ids
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ find /usr -name config.guess
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> 
> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.  (An obscure distro, I know...)

apt-get install autotools-dev

(a simple search on packages.ubuntu.com would have told you)

Aurel
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