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Re: gmake's config.guess is too old



On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:19:55PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Aug 11, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Christian Koch 
> <cfkoch%sdf.lonestar.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:56:38PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Aug 11, 2014, at 1:31 PM, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> 
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>>> So I'm proposing to update gmake's config.guess and config.sub. Does 
> >>>> this sound
> >>>> like a good idea? I can submit a patch, too.
> >>> 
> >>> seems reasonable to me.  thanks.
> >> 
> >> Not so fast.  our gmake is gpl2 so including stuff from gpl3 isn't a good 
> >> idea.
> > 
> > Suppose we track down the latest config.guess and config.sub that is GPL2?
> 
> That's fine.  

According to gnu.org, the latest config.guess and config.sub that is GPL2 is
from Dec 23, 2012.

    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/log/?ofs=50

Attached is a patch which brings up those files and the associated ChangeLog to
that version. It's very large (10 years worth of additions).

-Christian

Attachment: update-gmake-config-guess.patch.gz
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