- Fix to set makedist.sh to not wget config.sub and

config.guess from git repo. The fetch times out, and the
  version from libtoolize is much more recent now than
  that it was when the wget was added.

doc/Changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+4 August 2026: Wouter
+	- Fix to set makedist.sh to not wget config.sub and
+	  config.guess from git repo. The fetch times out, and the
+	  version from libtoolize is much more recent now than
+	  that it was when the wget was added.
+
 31 July 2026: Wouter
 	- For #1483: The failure reason when an NSEC NXDOMAIN is
 	  encountered when looking for an insecure delegation, is

makedist.sh

@@ -608,6 +608,8 @@ rm -rf .git .travis.yml .gitattributes .github .gitignore || error_cleanup "Fail
 info "Adding libtool utils (libtoolize)."
 libtoolize -c --install || libtoolize -c || error_cleanup "Libtoolize failed."
 
+# Turn this off, if the git repo times out for lookups.
+if test "updateconfigsub" = "false"; then
 # https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/config_002eguess.html
 info "Updating config.guess and config.sub"
 wget -O config.guess 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD'
@@ -621,6 +623,7 @@ if [ `uname -s | grep -i -c darwin` -ne 0 ]; then
         xattr -d com.apple.quarantine config.sub
     fi
 fi
+fi
 
 info "Building configure script (autoreconf)."
 autoreconf -f || error_cleanup "Autoconf failed."