Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

[Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:53:29AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >
> > Are you saying that config.guess is widely used outside of configure
> > scripts?
> 
> Yes.

config.guess is used in a number of places to generate the canonical name
for the type of system that the user is running on.

As an example of such use, consider GCC's test_summary script.  This
script processes the results of a dejagnu test run and mails in a report.
GCC testers use this script regularly so that regressions can be tracked.
These reports go to gcc-testresults@gcc.gnu.org and are archived on the web.
It uses config.guess to fill in the type of system for which tests are
being run.

That said, for many uses of the output of config.guess, a change would not
cause significant harm.  This is especially true for source distributions
that contain their own copy of config.guess: the distribution will generally
be consistent with the copy of config.guess that it contains.


> zw

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