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Re: How are config.sub and config.guess synchronized?
- From: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>, Sebastian Huber <sebastian dot huber at embedded-brains dot de>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 07:35:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: How are config.sub and config.guess synchronized?
- References: <ab28132e-5d26-24dc-2c88-3b1055dc3f61@embedded-brains.de> <877emhdga0.fsf@igel.home> <18533634-9559-33d4-4ae1-e315fb90f3c3@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 7:32 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
Maybe it should be automated?