Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> Err, we ship config.guess and config.sub in our CVS, what I did was
> pull those two files from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/config per the
> instructions when I picked up OU8.
> Why can't we just update that?
If autoconf releases were happening on a regular basis, we could get
away with just tracking the released version of autoconf for these
files. However, they aren't and we can't. Our past practice has been
to pull config.guess and config.sub from the autoconf project's CVS tree
whenever we approach a release, and that's what I think we should do
again as 7.2 approaches.
Peter E. is probably more up on this than I am --- let's postpone the
discussion till he returns from vacation. I see no reason to be in
a hurry about it.
Meanwhile, Larry, if you have any issues with the versions of these
files that are on the GNU servers then you need to talk to the upstream
folks. I definitely do not believe in distributing copies that we've
modified for ourselves.
regards, tom lane