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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe dot FR>
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>,Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>,Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems dot com>,Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>,Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>,rms at gnu dot org,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com,gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 10:46:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- References: <871xroqlaf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <200312062213.49021.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <20031207101552.A5587@dublin.act-europe.fr>
> I find that amazing to use hypothetical names in this discussion,
> it shows that you are running out of arguments :-)
It's called foresight. Never suppose the worst will never happen :-)
> The (hypothetical) name would of course be *-sun-solarisg3.0 or something
> like that, I don't see any problem, so why create one ?
I see a problem: you would have to explicitly special-case *-sun-solaris10 in
your patterns. And you would of course forget in some cases.
> This has lead in the past to other strangeness and confusion, the most
> obvious one being of course to name the pentium 'i586', and then continue
> with the i686, ...
Which is nice since you can use i?86. I think config.sub can accept whatever
fancy names you want, but config.guess should make it easy to parse its
output.
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Eric Botcazou