Re: Re: OpenUnix 8 Patchj

* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [010730 18:03]:
> Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
> > Err, we ship config.guess and config.sub in our CVS, what I did was
> > pull those two files from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/config per the
> > instructions when I picked up OU8.
>
> > Why can't we just update that?
>
> If autoconf releases were happening on a regular basis, we could get
> away with just tracking the released version of autoconf for these
> files. However, they aren't and we can't. Our past practice has been
> to pull config.guess and config.sub from the autoconf project's CVS tree
> whenever we approach a release, and that's what I think we should do
> again as 7.2 approaches.
>
> Peter E. is probably more up on this than I am --- let's postpone the
> discussion till he returns from vacation. I see no reason to be in
> a hurry about it.
>
> Meanwhile, Larry, if you have any issues with the versions of these
> files that are on the GNU servers then you need to talk to the upstream
> folks. I definitely do not believe in distributing copies that we've
> modified for ourselves.
I didn't modify them. I just pulled them from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config and diff'ed them against our CVS to
generate the patch.

I didn't touch byte one.

They DID pick up the necessary change for OpenUnix 8.

Larry
>
> regards, tom lane

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