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Subject: Re: build modifies config.guess and config.sub
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 19:35:25 +0100
> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 04:54:36PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:50 -0400
> > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> > > 
> > > Alternatively, we could check in the latest versions; older versions
> > > of autoconf won't overwrite them.
> > 
> > Don't they come from some external Git repository?  If so, checking in
> > changed versions is asking for trouble.
> 
> It looks like they normally get updated along with Gnulib.

Yes, I know.