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Re: How are config.sub and config.guess synchronized?
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>, Sebastian Huber <sebastian dot huber at embedded-brains dot de>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:31:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: How are config.sub and config.guess synchronized?
- References: <ab28132e-5d26-24dc-2c88-3b1055dc3f61@embedded-brains.de> <877emhdga0.fsf@igel.home>
Hi Sebastian,
On 29/06/18 11:43, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jun 29 2018, Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
>> How are the config.sub and config.guess files synchronized? I naively
>> copied the two files from
>>
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/config.git
>>
>> to the Binutils master, but this resulted in a lot of changes.
>
> That just means that there were many changes upstream since the last
> sync (commit b5778783ad), which isn't unusual.
Right.
Sebastian - to answer your question: there is no formal basis for
synchronizing these files. It just happens on an ad hoc basis.
So please go ahead and update the files.
Cheers
Nick