config.guess/config.sub for aarch64 (was Re: Mass Rebuild for Fedora 19)

[Orion Poplawski]

On 03/25/2013 02:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:36:17 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>> Isn't config.sub/config.guess really a part of automake and it is that that
>> needs updating by upstream?  For instance, configure in octave 3.6.4 says it
>> was generated by autoconf 2.69, but the config.guess/config.sub files don't
>> have aarch64.  What version of automake added aarch64?
>
> What does the "timestamp" value at the beginning of the config.guess
> file contain? It may be that upstream needs to "force"-update the files,
> e.g. with "autoreconf -f" (or the similar -f commands for the various
> autotools).
>

Looks like you need to run:

automake -f -a -c

to force it to copy in all needed files again.

But again, these files appear to come from automake not autoconf, which makes 
the bug reports filed inaccurate.

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