config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 4 22:44:00 GMT 2013


On 2013-09-04 17:13, 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.
>
> 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.

Please note that cygautoreconf() and the other *_autoreconf() functions 
already handle this automatically where applicable.


Yaakov


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