On 2020-09-10 02:02, Manolo wrote:
> I believe the weekly tar file should contain config.sub and config.guess.
> They are present in the release tar files, and the error reported by the OP
> does not occur if misc/config.sub and misc/config.guess are duplicated
> to config.sub and config.guess.

        I know we had a long thread about all this years ago, and there were
        reasons why it is the way it is.

        IIRC, it's best if autoconf generates these files, as it can have version
        specific stuff in them. I think we hit a snag once when autoconf changed
        something, and our frozen copies broke it.

        We keep those copies around in the misc directory as a fallback, in case
        it doesn't generate them.

        It's why we have these targets in the Makefile:
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config.guess config.sub:
        -automake --add-missing 2> /dev/null      <-- THIS SHOULD GENERATE THE TWO FILES. IF NOT, NEXT TWO LINES DO
        if [ ! -e config.sub   ]; then echo NOTE: Using frozen copy of config.sub;   cp misc/config.sub   . ; fi
        if [ ! -e config.guess ]; then echo NOTE: Using frozen copy of config.guess; cp misc/config.guess . ; fi
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        ..and why 'make distclean' does this:
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        $(RM) config.guess
        $(RM) config.sub
        $(RM) configure
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