On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:54:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > There are thousands of copies of config.guess/sub (or configure > scripts) out there (in tarballs) with no support for this at > all. Once it is added to config.guess/sub in git (or autoconf) then > it will take many years before the majority of copies of > config.guess/sub (or configure scripts) have support for this. This > is what I mean by bootstrap phase. Right. Just thinking out loud: isn't the Autoconf concept of "aux dir" of use here? That's where configure looks for config.guess. The latest version of install-sh, config.guess, etc. could live in such a system-wide directory. Unfortunately, it's not possible to set auxdir from the configure command line as you can with --srcdir, etc. Ben
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