On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:58:11AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:15:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think it might be a good idea to merge them. However, I need to upgrade > > a bit first. I'm still using 1.9.16. > > > > Any thoughts about using wildcards in archtable? It'd be nice to be able > > to say i386-unknown-freebsd*, and have configure work with that. Much > > nicer than putting each release in there. > > Merging is probably not a bad idea, but largely depends on how much extra > is necessary for OpenBSD; certainly, however, we should make sure that at > the very least, the two can be applied cleanly together. > > I *strongly* favor wildcard matching in the archtable, to address the issue > of not wanting to file bugs against dpkg every time NetBSD upgrades it's > kernel by a minor revision.
Yes, I think we all have that problem. I'll write up a patch for configure to support wildcards. I think that's the only place that will actually need them. I've configured gcc to use i386-unknown-freebsd4, so dpkg finds that when it looks for the arch at runtime. (By looking at the path to gcc-lib. Yuck!) I think I can probably live with putting major version number in. They aren't as frequent.
