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Removal of config.sub and config.guess
- From: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at arm dot com>
- To: "libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org>, Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:32:06 +0000
- Subject: Removal of config.sub and config.guess
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Hi,
The recent patch to remove config.sub and config.guess from the libffi
source repository has implications beyond simply running autogen.sh.
Prior to their removal the files in the tree corresponded to upstream
gnu config versions dated ~ 2013-04-24.
The most recent distribution of the autoconf package is autoconf-2.69,
this package distributes config.sub and config.guess dated 2012-04-18
2012-02-10.
The implication of this is that removing config.sub and config.guess
from the source tree in favour of executing autoreconf does not result
in equivalent functionality.
This change has effectively removed support for aarch64.
I would like to see these files re-instated.
Cheers
/Marcus