Re: [PATCH] fixes for kfreebsd-gnu triplet (revised)

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:52:54PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi DJ,
> 
> >> The patch to the top level configure file needs to be submitted to
> >> config-patches@gnu.org:
> >> 
> >> > 2003-08-30  Robert Millan  <robertmh@gnu.org>
> >> >
> >> > 	* configure.in: Match GNU/KFreeBSD with new kfreebsd*-gnu triplet.
> >
> > Makefile.in; configure; configure.in
> > 	Please notify the following of any committed patches.
> > 		binutils@sources.redhat.com
> > 		gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> >
> > Maybe you're confusing this with config.guess and config.sub ?
> 
> No - I believe that you still have control of the top level
> configure.in file.  The above just says that the binutils and gdb
> projects like to be informed of changes.  The binutils MAINTAINERS
> file says:
> 
>   Note - patches to the top level configure.in and config.sub scripts
>   should be sent to: 
> 
>     config-patches@gnu.org
> 
>   and not to the binutils list.
> 
> So, since Robert did not have a CC to config-patches on his patch
> submission I thought it best to mention explicitly that I was not
> checking that part of the patch in.

I believe that part of binutils/MAINTAINERS is wrong.  Patches for
configure.in should be copied to gcc-patches, binutils, and
gdb-patches; but I think the bit you quoted is refering to
config.guess.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer