flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Zack Weinberg
zack@codesourcery.com
Thu Dec 4 10:11:00 GMT 2003
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Paul Eggert already presented evidence that roughly 10% of a sample of
> configure.in scripts not only look at the configuration name, but
> match it against patterns containing the string "solaris" or "sunos".
> To my mind that is enough to rule out the proposed change as too costly.
>
> I'm surprised it is so many. As someone pointed out, the real extent of
> the problem depends on how many of them check the version number as well
> as the name. It should be pretty easy to measure that too.
Haven't we wasted enough time arguing about this proposal? The gain
is trivial - a tiny inconsistency removed - how can it possibly be
worth the effort even of measuring the exact scope of the disruption
it will cause?
> And, for the third time, Autoconf is not the only user of
> config.guess/config.sub.
>
> The point is that most programs nowadays use Autoconf, so other uses are
> few.
That turns out not to be the case. cfengine is a good example of a
program in an entirely different problem domain that uses canonical
system names.
zw
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