I don't think I'm understanding you - in this case, I'm the one writing the program, and thinking about the configure.ac and Makefile.am I'll be supplying to users and prospective package maintainers? I think the default autoconf on typical Linux distributions is normally sufficient these days? What is build-aux/config.sub? On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The bad news is, the llvm-config in the current path is not likely to be > > the right one (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04 thinks LLVM 3.4 is the latest version > > whereas it's actually up to 3.8, and the differences between versions do > > matter) so the user or packager needs to supply a path to the correct > > llvm-config. What's the best way to do this? > > I've run into this a few times due to unrecognized triplets on mobile > platforms. > > I've found reaching out to the package maintainer is the best course > of action. When you contact them, clearly state: > > (1) the problem you are encountering > (2) how to solve the problem > > In the case of the missing triplets and updated Autoconf files, I > usually provide a prescriptive recipe: > > wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.xz > tar xf autoconf-latest.tar.xz > autoconf-2.69 > cp build-aux/config.sub <where needed> > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
