Roland0 wrote: > It's a mix of both - some packages do not support aarch64, even in their > newest version. For those, config.guess is updated. > > > > ad 1: automake doesn't seem to be fully downwards compatible, so there > is a risk that it will fail (on my gentoo system, there are 3 versions > of automake installed for that reason...) > ad 2: will only work on debian-based linux variants
Agreed, it is not a good idea to do something that is Debian-specific, so that was why I was not totally happy and asked for a more elegant solution. What I really meant was a more robust solution. Another way to copy in the latest, known config.guess file without risking a broken automake would be to use: wget -O config.guess 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD' or curl 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD' > config.guess The only assumptions used here a working wget (or curl) and an Internet connection. These extra build steps would be protected by an if [ "`uname -m`" == "aarch64" ]; then conditional, so the probability of breaking the script for existing platforms for which it works would be minimal. Any thoughts on why the above is not a good change to propose? Charles. ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108166 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
