> > pros: we are able to easily patch also old packages (no-need to > > autoreconfigure) > > There would still be a long bootstrap period where old tarballs would > not have any way of running a modern config.sub/guess other than copying > them in from the system versions.
I meant that you are able to patch the very small part of config.guess/config.sub with checking for environmental variables and thats all -> you don't have to touch this package in future. The patched config.sub is able to call system's one. No need to bootstrap. > Modifying the config.guess/sub files to call other versions of > themselves was rejected by the maintainers a long time ago. Was there considered environmental variable approach? Pavel _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
