On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/08/2013 09:30 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: >> >> On 02/08/2013 07:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> >>> Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> >>>> Additionally we will be mass patching config.guess and config.sub to >>>> support aarch64 in preperation for 64 bit arm support >>> >>> >>> Hm, it would be much better in the long run to pester upstreams to >>> update to an appropriate version of these files. Are the required >>> changes in upstream autoconf yet, and if so what version? If not, >>> why not? >> >> >> Support for aarch64 landed in autoconf 2.69 which was released on March >> 25th >> and first built in Fedora on May 15th. Packages that use autoconf 2.69 >> are >> already good to go. >> > > Isn't config.sub/config.guess really a part of automake and it is that that > needs updating by upstream? For instance, configure in octave 3.6.4 says it > was generated by autoconf 2.69, but the config.guess/config.sub files don't > have aarch64. What version of automake added aarch64? 2.69 added it, I've seen that on a couple of packages but adding -vif on the end fixes it. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel