Re: GNU Autotools

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:40:40PM -0500, Craig Dooley wrote:
> In order to stop patching individual packages, and using the UNAME
> hacks, i was looking to update the ports for the autotools.  While
> working on autoconf, I found that if GNU_CONFIGURE is defined, the
> FreeBSD ports makefiles copy their own version of config.sub and
> config.guess to any ports that use them.  As long as we are using
> their system, this will happen (I'm not looking to start a war on
> package management).  For now, could we get them to supply a modified
> version of config.guess and config.sub in ports/Templates that will
> recognize dragonfly?  We also need to get the GNU people to update
> their config.sub and config.guess.

It would be enough if they fetch the latest version from gnu.org.

Joerg