How are config.sub and config.guess synchronized?

NightStrike nightstrike@gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 11:35:00 GMT 2018


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?



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