From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28846 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2003 17:17:10 -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 28805 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2003 17:17:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 17:17:09 -0000 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ARacX-0004dy-6z; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:17:01 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: "Zack Weinberg" CC: eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <87wu9esxu6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (zack@codesourcery.com) Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} Reply-to: rms@gnu.org 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> <87n0aaj4cl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87wu9esxu6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Message-Id: Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:17:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 > 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. The burden is on you to prove that - in the absence of evidence we must assume that most or all configure scripts *will* have to be modified; Don't we know that most programs that use Autoconf don't actually look at the configuration name at all?