On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:36:20 +0100 Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:38 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:49:19 +0100 > > Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:15 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:20:56 +0100 > > > > Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote: <snipp> > > In the releases you do not have to do autoreconf, hence not having > > updated config.guess/sub there might make the newer architectures > > not work. > > I don't know how releases are prepared, I imagine autoreconf run is > done and all resulting machinery (configure and stuff) is included. > So these files would be generated (or updated) by this process anyway. > Very good point, I guess I had a belief that config.sub and config.guess was grabbed from CVS when doing a release. Hence updating them to latest variants would be a good idea. > > Btw: the patch was "old", i.e. before I saw that you removed them > > completely from CVS. > > I understand. > > I don't understand how it could be helping before that removal. > The only scenario I can imagine when it would work is if one copies > cvs tree into an older *release* tree, and then runs configure (it is > there because release tree has it). But this is a quite awkward way of > building strace from cvs (makes sense only if one does not have > autoconf?), and is prone to subtle problems (extra stale header files > and such). > Agreed, and if you want to work with CVS a proper development environment is recommended anyway I guess. > > > Can you give me exact sequence of commands you use to build strace > > > from cvs tree, one which does not work with "bad" config.sub and > > > config.guess, but works with updated ones? > > > > > > > I think we agree, but are discussing two sides of the same matter? > > Looks like. > Good (-: I think I should probably blame Friday after lunch hacking. -- Best regards, Hans-Christian Egtvedt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
