Re: ncurses built on mips-compaq-nonstopux

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:51:04PM -0500, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:33:00PM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Tom Bates wrote:
> > 
> > > Just a note to say I built and installed ncurses on a
> > > Mips based Compaq box running NonStopUX.
> > > 
> > > I had to modify config.guess and config.sub.  How should I get these
> > > changes into the source?
> > 
> > either send diff's to this mailing list, or a URL of the patched files.
> 
> Thomas, do you use the regularly updated config.{guess,sub} on ftp.gnu.org?

        http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config/

I look at it occasionally, and merge/update.  It's only been "regularly"
updated during the past year afaik, (Each time I work on a program I resync the
autoconf macros as well - _that_ isn't automatic since some require additional
modifications to the configure script).  I also read the changes in the CVS
version - I find it annoying when it has spelling errors and inconsistencies in
whitespace.
 
> I've seen these patches on at least one other list.  Rather than trying to
> get them to every package around, if those packages are using the files
> from gnu.org, just updating that one should be enough.

There's more than one factor - I see that some people are giving pointers
to the CVS version (and don't have the url memorized).  If I find that it's
not in the CVS version, I do send email about it, but my experience in that
has been mixed (if they don't already know about it, they don't add it w/o
several reminders).  So I'll pick up the changes until it's "official".

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