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Re: Removal of config.sub and config.guess
- From: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- To: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- Cc: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at arm dot com>, "libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:29:33 +0000
- Subject: Re: Removal of config.sub and config.guess
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Hi Anthony,
Thanks for looking into this issue.
On 20 March 2014 14:08, Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com> wrote:
> 1. Revert the changes completely, and reintroduce all generated
> configury to the repo.
>
> 2. Make no changes, and just ask that developers who care use
> pre-releases of the configury tools (like I was doing with libtool
> for similar reasons). This is what I would do for the release, so
> aarch64 support would be preserved in the release.
>
> 3. Don't revert the changes, but modify the autogen.sh script to pull in
> the newer config.guess and config.sub after the fact.
>
> Do you see any other solution? I'd prefer not to go with [1]. How do
> you feel about [2] or [3]?
[3] is fine with me, it results in a clone that builds and works out
of the box with released tools. I am less comfortable with [2]. It
isn't clear to me how many folks this issue will impact nor how long
the situation will continue.
Cheers
/Marcus