Quoth Akim Demaille:
> First of all, there are still no easy means to compare two versions
> and decide which one is the most recent.
Well ...
| $ ./config.guess --version
| i586-pc-linux
One could probably easily use $Date$ or $Revision$ from CVS for arranging
this. The problem, however, is that config.guess is nowadays neither
forward nor backward compatible and it's becoming increasingly difficult
to keep track of what it is supposed to print. Just a few weeks ago it
printed i586-pc-linux-gnu for this machine. Now this happens:
| $ ./config.guess
| i586-pc-linux
| $ ./config.sub `config.guess`
| i586-pc-linux-gnu
| $ ./config.sub i586-linux
| i586-pc-linux-gnu
And just for fun:
| $ ./config.sub i586-unknown-linux-gnu
| i586-unknown-linux-gnu
(Somebody please explain how this machine is supposed to differ from the
above.)
I hope that convinces everyone about $build != $host.
I wonder, is there some sort "release" of these config tools I should be
using for "production" work?
PS: And I'll bet lunch that no longer differentiating elf and non-elf
freebsd (as of a week ago) is going to break something.
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