Re: config.guess and Linux/GNU

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 00:37 08.06.00, Franz Sirl wrote:
>Not only it misses the -gnu, I think it also breaks support for x86 libc5
>platforms IMHO. I think it should be fixed. I wonder why this patch was
>necessary anyway, it looks superflous to me. Hmm, and for uniformity,
>ia64-linux should be fixed too.


I just verified that, libc5 on Linux is now detected as

i586-pc-linux

instead of the correct

i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1

I think this might break libstdc++ binary compatibility for libc5...

I suggest the appended patch.

Franz.


         * config.guess: Detect Linux on ia64 as -linux-gnu.
         Revert this patch:
         * config.guess: Handle an ld emulation of elf_i?86. From Bruce
         Korb <bkorb@sco.com>.


Index: config.guess
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/egcs/config.guess,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -p -r1.37 config.guess
--- config.guess        2000/06/05 23:23:43     1.37
+++ config.guess        2000/06/08 10:40:14
@@ -701,15 +701,11 @@ EOF
                                     p'`
          case "$ld_supported_emulations" in
           *ia64)
-               echo "${UNAME_MACHINE}-unknown-linux"
+               echo "${UNAME_MACHINE}-unknown-linux-gnu"
                 exit 0
                 ;;
           i?86linux)
                 echo "${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-linux-gnuaout"
-               exit 0
-               ;;
-         elf_i?86)
-               echo "${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-linux"
                 exit 0
                 ;;
           i?86coff)

config-guess.patch