[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#726394: lighttpd: config.guess/config.sub out of date for arm64

[Stefan Bühler]

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:44:56 +0100
Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> lighttpd's config.guess/config.sub are out of date for the forthcoming
> arm64 port.  The attached patch sets things up so that you don't have
> to be bothered by this type of bug for future ports.
> 
> Ideally, you'd be able to use the more comprehensive dh-autoreconf
> instead.  However, this currently fails because of the use of the
> obsolete AM_C_PROTOTYPES macro in configure.ac.  It would be good to
> fix this at some point.

We fixed some autotool stuff upstream, so you might want to give 1.4.33
a try; https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/server:http/lighttpd
contains an updated package 1.4.33-0.1 (based on current master from
git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-lighttpd/lighttpd.git)

I'm not sure what --with=autotools_dev does exactly, but I'd like to
point out that autoconf is often incompatible across versions (have a
look at 1.4.33 configure.ac to see some horrible macros for more
"compatible" stuff), and I recommend to stick with the scripts
generated upstream.

You are welcome to help us improve the upstream release process; I
think the autotools fail to update outdated helper scripts - you
actually have to manually remove them.

regards,
Stefan