From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NHxBn-0004UF-Mw for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:21:03 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHxBm-0004Tc-10 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:21:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHxBh-0004SC-5D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:21:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53299 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NHxBh-0004S9-0t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:20:57 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:50154) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NHxBg-0005Im-GY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:20:56 -0500 Received: from [85.180.10.8] (e180010008.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.10.8]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LjfXI-1Np5151tBA-00bYRp; Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:20:55 +0100 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GNU GRUB In-Reply-To: <20091207235455.GL6439@riva.ucam.org> References: <4B1D3D7E.5000909@gmail.com> <4B1D5C89.8080104@gmail.com> <4B1D6AB9.8070105@gmail.com> <4B1D8664.4070403@gmail.com> <20091207235455.GL6439@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:20:54 +0100 Message-ID: <1260267654.3014.3.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.29.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18KW3zluKHbLizEcPwNvrjZvOuwhRCfHw9dZ/V AwVpVTViM+lF/aFP8Alg/BBPuzAxO9si3+Bkf1aklWIKpplULO g+E82nHf5U7UShjnF+rcA== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: autogen.sh warnings X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:21:02 -0000 Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 23:54 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson: > > The real purpose of automake is to create a Makefile.in for > configure. > > GRUB doesn't use it for that. Is there any reason to not just add > the > > three files to the bzr repository and remove the automake line > from > > autogen.sh? > > These files do change from time to time, in ways that are important; > for > example, config.guess and config.sub are updated to support new > architectures or new variants of existing architectures. It's best to > have this done automatically rather than doing it once manually and > then > forgetting about it. > Well in the past I did sync config.guess and config.sub from the git repository for them once in a while, when I noticed the changes for them could be good for us. So if people use outdated autotools it means a downgrade for them. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer