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

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 09:30 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
>>
>> On 02/08/2013 07:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>> Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Additionally we will be mass patching config.guess and config.sub to
>>>> support aarch64 in preperation for 64 bit arm support
>>>
>>>
>>> Hm, it would be much better in the long run to pester upstreams to
>>> update to an appropriate version of these files.  Are the required
>>> changes in upstream autoconf yet, and if so what version?  If not,
>>> why not?
>>
>>
>> Support for aarch64 landed in autoconf 2.69 which was released on March
>> 25th
>> and first built in Fedora on May 15th.  Packages that use autoconf 2.69
>> are
>> already good to go.
>>
>
> 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?

2.69 added it, I've seen that on a couple of packages but adding -vif
on the end fixes it.

Peter