Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 23:54 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson: > > The real purpose of automake is to create a Makefile.in for > configure. > > GRUB doesn't use it for that. Is there any reason to not just add > the > > three files to the bzr repository and remove the automake line > from > > autogen.sh? > > These files do change from time to time, in ways that are important; > for > example, config.guess and config.sub are updated to support new > architectures or new variants of existing architectures. It's best to > have this done automatically rather than doing it once manually and > then > forgetting about it. >
Well in the past I did sync config.guess and config.sub from the git repository for them once in a while, when I noticed the changes for them could be good for us. So if people use outdated autotools it means a downgrade for them. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
