Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

[Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>]

Zack Weinberg writes:
>  And you completely ignored the issue of non-autoconf users of 
> config.sub/guess.

Exactly. Just a random note about how some people use config.guess: we have a 
testsuite for our library, which heavily exercises floating point. Since FP 
units vary between processors, we sometimes get results that differ in the 
minor digits of the output, and that's why we store output files for each 
platform, canonicalized by config.guess. I.e., we have directories
  testsuite/results/i686-pc-linux-gnu
  testsuite/results/sparc-sun-solaris2.7
  ...
If you change the canonicalized name of one of these, this would inflict major 
pain on us, since CVS doesn't easily allow to rename directories. I know how 
to fix this, but it involves messing with the CVS archive, and it's not a 
one-line change. 

I consider the proposed change totally useless, and not trivial to work around 
in situations as above.

W.

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