From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23517 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2003 23:22:38 -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 23503 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2003 23:22:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO panther.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2003 23:22:37 -0000 Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by panther.cs.ucla.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.6/UCLACS-5.2) with ESMTP id hASNMW923861; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1APrwW-00026o-00; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:22:32 -0800 To: "Zack Weinberg" Cc: Ben Elliston , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rms@gnu.org Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87wu9mt79r.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:22:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87wu9mt79r.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Message-ID: <871xrs5b9j.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00288.txt.bz2 "Zack Weinberg" writes: > THE OUTPUT OF CONFIG.GUESS MUST NOT EVER CHANGE. > EVEN IF IT IS WRONG. It isn't reasonable to insist on this as an absolute policy. If this policy were strictly adhered to, most of the changes to config.guess would be disallowed, as config.guess typically outputs something wrong on unusual hosts. People make mistakes. Systems change. The output of config.guess has changed in the past, and it will change in the future. The very name "config.guess" suggests that its output should not be considered to be unchanging truth.