Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Specifying --build (was: make curl fails)

[Volker Grabsch]

Tony Theodore schrieb:
> My original thought for this was to remove the src/*config-update
> patches and copy these config.* files over instead. Patches have one
> main advantage over this - we'll know when the files are updated by
> upstream and can remove them easily.
> 
> We can test for newer files:
>     # Update config.* files for newer OSes
>     [ '$(PREFIX)/bin/config.guess' -nt '$(1)/config.guess' ] && \
>     cp '$(PREFIX)/bin/config.guess' '$(1)' && \
>     cp '$(PREFIX)/bin/config.sub'   '$(1)'
> 
> however that will depend on release timing for binutils.
> 
> So what do you think, is it better to remove these 15 patches and have
> a few extra lines, or leave it as-is and not install config.sub?

I think we shouldn't do either. What's wrong with simply adding

    --build="`config.guess`"

and be done with it?

The only downside is that we won't know when this can be removed,
which is a bad thing in general, but in this particular case I
don't think this is bad at all. Even if a package upgrades its
config.guess, that project has shown that they don't upgrade
their Autotools stuff often. So it is very likely that config.guess
will become outdated again, causing yet some other trouble in
the future.

To make the point clear, I'd be even perfectly okay if we add
the "--build" option consistently to all packages which use
Autoconf, as a matter of "good style" to avoid future trouble.


Greets,
Volker

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Volker Grabsch
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