From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4667 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2003 18:44:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4649 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 18:43:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piper.synopsys.com) (198.182.56.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 18:43:59 -0000 Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hB5IgpO02785; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:42:51 -0800 Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:44:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Zack Weinberg Cc: rms@gnu.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Branko_=C8ibej?= , eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} Message-ID: <20031205104251.A2650@synopsys.com> References: <87brqsw9d9.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <871xroqlaf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87n0aaj4cl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87wu9esxu6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87ad69rf42.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <3FCEE9B1.3050703@xbc.nu> <87y8trm9ra.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <87y8trm9ra.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>; from zack@codesourcery.com on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:53:29AM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00116.txt.bz2 On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:53:29AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Richard Stallman writes: > > > > > Are you saying that config.guess is widely used outside of configure > > scripts? > > Yes. config.guess is used in a number of places to generate the canonical name for the type of system that the user is running on. As an example of such use, consider GCC's test_summary script. This script processes the results of a dejagnu test run and mails in a report. GCC testers use this script regularly so that regressions can be tracked. These reports go to gcc-testresults@gcc.gnu.org and are archived on the web. It uses config.guess to fill in the type of system for which tests are being run. That said, for many uses of the output of config.guess, a change would not cause significant harm. This is especially true for source distributions that contain their own copy of config.guess: the distribution will generally be consistent with the copy of config.guess that it contains. > zw -- Q. What's more of a headache than a bug in a compiler. A. Bugs in six compilers. -- Mark Johnson