Re: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Sep-2003, Paul D. Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

| I'm still waiting for _ANY_ kind of response here.
| 
| Doesn't anyone know or care about config.guess or config.sub anymore?

I sent the following reply on 23 Aug 2003, but apparently it was a
victim of some Sobig.F filter even though it did NOT contain a copy of
the virus:

     ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
  <address@hidden>
      (reason: 550 Message contains Sobig.F.  Denied.)
  <address@hidden>
      (reason: 550 Message contains Sobig.F.  Denied.)
  <address@hidden>
      (reason: 550 Message contains Sobig.F.  Denied.)

  ...

  From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
  Message-ID: <address@hidden>
  Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:28:26 -0500
  To: address@hidden
  Cc: Ben Elliston <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
  Subject: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}
  In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>

  On 22-Aug-2003, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

  | I've been trying to build GNU make packages.  Like some of the other GNU
  | toolkits, my "make dist" process involves a wget of the very latest
  | config.guess and config.sub files from the ftp.gnu.org server.

  Maybe a better place to get the current versions of these files is
  here:

    http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config/

  It seems to me that instead of copying the files to the GNU ftp server
  (even if it could be done automatically), it would make more sense to
  just put a note there saying where to find them on the savannah
  server.



jwe