From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16622 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2003 21:29:38 -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 16416 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2003 21:29:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO panther.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2003 21:29:37 -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 hB2LTV912225; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARI5K-00031R-00; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:29:30 -0800 To: Ben Elliston Cc: "Zack Weinberg" , 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> <871xrs5b9j.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87znegqb31.fsf@codesourcery.com> <87brqsw9d9.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <871xroqlaf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:29:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <871xroqlaf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Message-ID: <87n0aaj4cl.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: 2003-12/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 "Zack Weinberg" writes: > I think it's roughly comparable to the disruption involved in the > switch from autoconf 2.13 to autoconf 2.5x -- every last configure > script on the planet is going to have to be audited for problems, This overstates the amount of work that will need to be done, as the vast majority of configure scripts will not be affected by this change, whereas the switch from Autoconf 2.13 to 2.5x required changes to most configure.in files. I sense that we're not making much progress in the discussion any more. Ben, what's your thought on this matter now? Are you still inclined to make the change, or would you rather fork config.guess and config.sub, or look for some other compromise, or what?