> > [1] There are people who think a config.guess output that says: > > > > i686-pc-linux-gnu > > > > is "normal", while some of us feel that is a particularly useless value a= > nd > > would prefer to see something like: > > > > i686-pc-redhat7.3 > > > > instead, just like the original documentation spec'd out. > > > The differences between ALL of the various linux-gnu implementations are > so slight that they are far more suited to feature tests than something > like this.
Are you really serious? What is the "domain" of these similarities? - RC files? - packaging mechanism? - automount filesystem selection based on different OS versions? > Libtool, probably the greatest user of config.guess output, manages just > fine to assume "all GNU/Linux is similar enough". autoconf/configure is by no means the only consumer of config.guess output. H
