On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:53, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > | Sorry for having to say this, but IMO, configure scripts relying on > | config.guess'ed values are "badly designed and fundamentally flawed". > > It's a pity you think that. I always found libtool to be rather useful. Well, I don't know how libtool applies config.guess and if/how my problems with libtool are connected to config.guess'ing. I'd assume they are not connected to config.guess'ing.
Anyway, my comment was meant generally. I was referring to attempts to apply config.guess'ed valued to configuration tables, e.g. something similar to this: case $host_os in redhat7.3) f=/etc/txt.cfg;; redhat8.0) f=/etc/sysconfig/txt.cfg;; redhat*) f=/etc/foo/txt.cfg;; suse9.0) f=/etc/var/txt.cfg;; solaris*) f=/etc/config/txt.cfg;; ... esac In short terms (esp. when a package is new and the set of "supported OSes" is small) this is tempting, but in longer terms, it's a maintainer's nightmare. Ralf
