On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 05/09/2013 8:08 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> >>> On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>>> >>>> Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages. You >>>> will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files >>>> in those packages with newer ones from >>>> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ because it won't guess your system >>>> correctly. >>>> >>>> Twice now I've seen on config-patches a report submitted because of >>>> this. >>>> >>> The versions installed into /usr/share/automake-X.Y/ have all been >>> modified >>> to be the latest upstream as of mid-July -- for all X.Y from 1.4 to 1.14. >>> >>> Also, cygport itself ships with an identical copy, and modifying your >>> script >>> to call 'gnuconfigize' during src_compile() will update them as well. >> >> That's fine if the user is using cygport but from the two I've seen on >> config-patches is that the user is executing a package configure where >> the package has an 11 year old config.guess and is not using cygport >> at all. > > I would think that cygwin64 is the least of your worries if you're using an > 11 year-old config.guess...
Yes, especially since the output of config.guess suggests using a new version giving the ftp URI to use and the user blindly copies and pastes that output to email without first trying to use a more current version. It is the mindset of ISJWWP. ISJWWP - It should just work without problems -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple