>>>>> "Roland" == Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> writes:
Roland> The coding standards say, "The configure script should also
Roland> take an argument which specifies the type of system to build
Roland> the program for."
It would be great if the standards could be updated in this regard.
There is way too much confusion coming from the existence of *two*
means to specify the various architecture. The one based on options
being clearly superior (more intuitive and more control), the other
one should fade away.
Well, besides the coding standards problem, the main problem is that you
can't emulate the old syntax with the new syntax and that the emulation of
the old syntax isn't working correctly. So either the old syntax
compatibility has to be fixed or it has to be rejected completely and the
coding standards need updating then.