From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9178A431FAF for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:47 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6xhiRGpZOCbq for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6C7B431FAE for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-142166230117.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([142.166.230.117] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S4NXY-0002DR-Lh; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:20:45 -0400 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1S4NXT-0004KH-De; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:20:39 -0400 From: David Bremner To: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform In-Reply-To: <1330792823-6049-1-git-send-email-4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> References: <1330792823-6049-1-git-send-email-4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11.1+264~gcfc5f10 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:20:39 -0400 Message-ID: <87k42zokjs.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam_bar: - X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:20:47 -0000 On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:21 +0100, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > The patch reuses config.sub to canonicalize the arguments, but this > introduces a build dependency on autotools and probably worse, it uses > autotools internals and the path to config.sub has to be hardcoded. > > Since this might be not desirable we might also just drop the code > that parses the --host and --build options since we're not using them > anyway. The second solution sounds better to me. The only issue we might encounter is dealing with multi-arch installation properly. But I guess we don't do that now anyway, so no real loss. d