Why does config.guess come up with such wacky stuff?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19991201100222.A29202@rjlhome.sco.com >you write:
ated binaries will crash.  If you're on a P-II or P-III and do
   > I've added the guy that I believe to be the author of this specific
  > change to this discussion.  Hops, I feel pretty strongly that
  > config.guess should cater to the '/path/to/configure && make && make
  > install' user and that creators of binary kits should be responsible
  > for overriding the triple if they so desire.  Without fretting over the
  > details right now, would you support something like this in the master
  > copy of config.guess so that GCC can use the master copy?
FWIW, I work for a company that makes most of its money on GCC work and
has as much experience as anyone with the pros/cons of different configure
schemes.

For building our releases we override config.guess so that we can exercise
more control over what systems the release will work on.  From time to time
it causes problems, but those are usually due to bugs in the configure scripts.
But I consider this behavior the exception rather than the rule.

I agree 100% with Robert that config.guess is supposed to cater to the random
person that picks up GCC (or other tools) off the net and wants to get it
built with a minimum of hassle.

jeff