flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Eric Botcazou
ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr
Sun Dec 7 15:26:00 GMT 2003
> I find that amazing to use hypothetical names in this discussion,
> it shows that you are running out of arguments :-)
It's called foresight. Never suppose the worst will never happen :-)
> The (hypothetical) name would of course be *-sun-solarisg3.0 or something
> like that, I don't see any problem, so why create one ?
I see a problem: you would have to explicitly special-case *-sun-solaris10 in
your patterns. And you would of course forget in some cases.
> This has lead in the past to other strangeness and confusion, the most
> obvious one being of course to name the pentium 'i586', and then continue
> with the i686, ...
Which is nice since you can use i?86. I think config.sub can accept whatever
fancy names you want, but config.guess should make it easy to parse its
output.
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Eric Botcazou
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