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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR>
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
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> 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.

-- 
Eric Botcazou