Re: [SLUG] configure problem -BTW

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2006 - 23:57:12 EDT


On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Bob Stia wrote:

> On Monday 17 July 2006 01:15, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
>
>> To get beyond this particular problem, merely update your package's
>> config.sub and config.guess.
>>
>> $ rm -f config.sub config.guess
>> $ wget
>> 'http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub'
>> $ wget
>> 'http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess'
>>
>> Now your x86_64 architecture should be detected.
>>
>> Your next problem will probably have something to do with your installed
>> versions of libtool, autoconf, and automake...
>>
> Ian,
>
> Out of curiousity, doing a locate on config.sub & config.guess turned up
> about a dozen different ones associated with different packages. I guess
> wget only changed those files in that particular app?

Only those where you happened to be at the time (probably . = $SRCDIR),
since no output file was given to wget. This is one-time, not universal.
A universal fix might or might not be possible, depending on "configure".

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