That's correct. MPIR uses its own config.guess, but it uses the original fsf version to give it a bootstrap.
Bill. On 26 May 2013 22:45, leif <[email protected]> wrote: > Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > >> On Sunday, May 26, 2013 9:43:31 PM UTC+2, leif wrote: >> >> Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: >> > Dear all, >> > >> > The Cygwin folks are working hard on Cygwin64. >> > I tried to install MPIR 2.6.0 on top of that but the config.guess >> > shipped with MPIR failed when trying to get where it was building >> on. >> > In fact this file is quite old, from 2003 according to the >> timestamp >> > spit within the error message, the latest upstream seems to be >> > frequently updated. >> > Using the latest upstream config.guess (in top level dir, yasm and >> > yasm/config subdirs, I also updated config.sub) let MPIR >> configure (and >> > then build, I cannot promise the result is functional though yet). >> >> For the top-level dir, I assume you're talking about >> configfsf.{guess,sub}. >> >> You may still have to modify the top-level config.guess as well >> though. >> >> >> Don't really know, it's late here so I just replaced the config.* files >> as suggested by the error message without giving it more thoughts and it >> just worked. >> > > The generic config.{guess,sub} alone are pretty useless for GMP/MPIR and > the like, as they don't return / support any specific CPU type (beyond what > usually 'uname -m' or 'uname -p' gives). > > Just take a look at the original files; they're wrappers around the > generic ones (which have been renamed to configfsf.*). > > > > I did not try to autoreconf >> > > That's not necessary. > > > > -leif > > -- > () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign > /\ Help Cure HTML E-Mail > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > mpir-devel+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<mpir-devel%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/mpir-devel?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
