On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Ben Elliston wrote: > 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. Maybe have a common directory of /usr/[local/]share/autoconf/auxdir and teach autoconf to look there if it doesn't find config.guess/config.sub in the project directory and copy them when copy is specified? I dislike the environment variable idea. Too fragile, someone forgets it is set and then has trouble because the config.guess/config.sub he's trying to use isn't being used. I know you mean for the variable to be set at autoreconf/configure usage but there are always idiots who install it into their .profile files and forget they did that. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
