Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Anyone working on linux Alpha?

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Done. Removed -O2 for linux_alpha and made it -O. I can not make the
> > other changes because that is generated by GNU autoconf.
>
> config.sub and config.guess are not auto-generated.
>
> What we have already done a couple of times is to apply suggested
> fixes to our current copies of these files, but to ask the submitter
> to send the bug report to the GNU folks as well (autoconf(at)gnu(dot)org
> and bug-gnu-utils(at)prep(dot)ai(dot)mit(dot)edu) so that it gets into future GNU
> releases. We do not want to maintain a divergent version of these
> files.
>
> I think someone remarked a few days ago that they had access to a
> more up-to-date version of the config scripts than was present in
> the last Autoconf release (2.13). Maybe we should try to grab the
> latest GNU sources of these files?

Considering that we are pretty much requiring the use of 2.13, this does
make sense...

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