Re: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform\r
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+On Sat,  3 Mar 2012 17:40:21 +0100, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:\r
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+> The patch reuses config.sub to canonicalize the arguments, but this\r
+> introduces a build dependency on autotools and probably worse, it uses\r
+> autotools internals and the path to config.sub has to be hardcoded.\r
+> \r
+> Since this might be not desirable we might also just drop the code\r
+> that parses the --host and --build options since we're not using them\r
+> anyway.\r
+\r
+The second solution sounds better to me. The only issue we might\r
+encounter is dealing with multi-arch installation properly. But I guess\r
+we don't do that now anyway, so no real loss.\r
+\r
+d\r
+\r
+\r