Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> New platforms are introduced very slowly (and more slowly every year).
This is not my experience. I have to update config.{sub,guess} for a new
platform at user request at least once a year, whereas changed platform
names have never caused a problem
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Bob Proulx wrote:
I think someone reading your response will then be scared to update
the config.guess because you say it breaks a matched set. But I think
that fear is unwarranted and in most cases the script *must* be
updated in order to work on new platforms.
New platf
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> It may be considered a good thing to some, but it is not necessarily a
> good thing. Consider that the rest of the build package (e.g.
> libtool) is expecting particular host identifications and that
> sometimes the behavior of these scripts change.
Only very rarely wi
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Bob Proulx wrote:
The point of this is that automatically updating the config.guess and
config.sub scripts is considered a good thing.
It may be considered a good thing to some, but it is not necessarily a
good thing. Consider that the rest of the build package (e.g.
li
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Ed Hartnett wrote:
> > Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> > > It's safe to just replace the two files with newer versions; I think you
> > > should keep the two in sync though.
I thought I would note that both Debian and Red Hat packaging of
programs that use config.guess and con
[ config.guess and config.sub ]
* Ed Hartnett wrote on Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:19:29PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > It's safe to just replace the two files with newer versions; I think you
> > should keep the two in sync though.
>
> OK. Should I replace them in ever
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Ed Hartnett wrote on Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:22:40PM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > * John Wohlbier wrote on Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:12:57PM CEST:
>> > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/config/config/config.gue
