[fedora-arm] Running autoreconf for aarch64 support, why ?

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While working on my Fedora packages, I noticed that
> %configure replaces config.guess and config.sub with
> /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.guess and
> /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.sub, ie:
>
> + for i in '$(find . -name config.guess -o -name config.sub)'
> ++ basename ./lib-src/libresample/config.guess
> + '[' -f /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.guess ']'
> + /usr/bin/rm -f ./lib-src/libresample/config.guess
> ++ basename ./lib-src/libresample/config.guess
> + /usr/bin/cp -fv /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.guess
> ./lib-src/libresample/config
> '/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.guess' -> './lib-src/libresample/config.guess'
> + for i in '$(find . -name config.guess -o -name config.sub)'
> ++ basename ./config.sub
> + '[' -f /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.sub ']'
> + /usr/bin/rm -f ./config.sub
> ++ basename ./config.sub
> + /usr/bin/cp -fv /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.sub ./config.sub
> '/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.sub' -> './config.sub'
> + for i in '$(find . -name config.guess -o -name config.sub)'
> ++ basename ./config.guess
> + '[' -f /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.guess ']'
> + /usr/bin/rm -f ./config.guess
> ++ basename ./config.guess
> + /usr/bin/cp -fv /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.guess ./config.guess
> '/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/config.guess' -> './config.guess'
>
> So why do we need to run autoreconf to update these, if they are
> replaced anyways ???

That feature has only just landed in Fedora, we filed the bugs long
before hand, we're in the process of reviewing all packages that would
be fixed by the above feature and those bugs will be closed once we
do.

Peter