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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:33:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp> wrote:

> I'm not sure whether we should import GNU stuff in ports tree or not.
> I'm building amd64 packages with my local $CONFIG_SUB_OVERRIDE patch.
> This is inspired from NetBSD's $CONFIG_SUB_OVERRIDE.  [...]

Well, this is very similar to the CONFIG_GUESS_DIRS approach I
copied from OpenBSD.  From the porter's perspective, the only
difference is the name of the variable.

> As we provide correct (hopefully :-)) $CPU-$VENDOR-$OS string in ports
> infrastracture, I'm using extremely simplified config.sub script.

Yes, it may very well be possible to replace config.guess/config.sub
by extremely simplified scriptlets.

> o Error logs which I cannot build with this patch:

But none of these are due to config.* problems, are they?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de