Re: unable to build sawfish

[Rodrigo Gallardo <rodrigo nul-unu com>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:22:13AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 05:21:34AM +0530, ritz wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> >   I am unable to build sawfish 1.3.4 on Fedora9.
> 
> I forgot to add.  Files etc/config.guess and etc/config.sub in
> sawfish 1.3.4 source are pretty crufty and it was not different in
> 1.3.3.  Therefore in spec files I wrote for myself a %build section
> starts with:
> 
> ( cd etc
>    rm -f config.guess config.sub
>    [ -r /usr/share/libtool/config.guess ] &&
>      ln -s /usr/share/libtool/config.guess . || exit 1
>    [ -r /usr/share/libtool/config.sub ] &&
>      ln -s /usr/share/libtool/config.sub . || exit 1
> )
> 
> Maybe this has something to do with ability/unability to build
> sawfish?  I did not check.

Those files are basically libtool's mechanism for detecting your
architecture and OS. Thus, unless they are way out of date or you're in
a "weird" arch, they should not cause outright failure.