| NTP, on the other hand, appeared to be using *some* 2.14a version of
| autoconf. But it's hard to determine really as there are no periodic
| checkpoints or at least tie in something to indicate which code set things
| were built with.
Right, this is another perverse effect of the long delays between
releases. I should be the last time a release of Autoconf is delayed
so much.
| nexus@thune[10:41pm]src/ntp/ntp-4.0.99j(576) ./configure i386-linux
| creating cache ./config.cache
| checking host system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
| checking target system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
| checking build system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
| However, I must say, I do NOT like it changing "i386-linux" to
| "i386-pc-linux-gnu". That is not what I typed in. If I want to override
| it, I want to damn well override it.
That's not what happened. What's displayed is the canonicalized
system names, and it is a good thing they are normalized. If you want
to use what the user typed in, use _alias (only with recent CVS,
sorry): host_alias etc.
