Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9093] Add config.guess and config.sub to .gitignore and remove them from repos

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Jeff Morriss changed bug 9093

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Comment # 1 on bug 9093 from Jeff Morriss

Hmmm, I don't think that removing config.guess and config.sub is the right
thing to do.

Yes, this Q&A:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4458859/autotools-should-config-guess-depcomp-or-ltmain-sh-be-stored-in-the-svn-repo

says that you shouldn't be in the repo, but a later answer points out that not
having them in the repo means you may get inconsistency.

Libtool will put them in our source distribution anyway:

http://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_90.html

which means that if we don't have them in SVN we'll be distributing the
versions that the buildbot builds; I suspect that the versions in SVN are
actually newer than what the buildbot would build.

For example one Redhat bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=926723

was fixed by us pulling in the most recent config.guess and config.sub.

Another data point: Ruby keeps these files in source control to ensure the
files are pretty close to the latest versions:

https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/72354


(I am far from an autofoo expert so maybe there are stronger reasons not do it
that I just haven't found...)

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