From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7994 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2003 08:00:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 7981 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2003 08:00:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO palantir.xbc.nu) (213.143.69.107) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2003 08:00:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 9143 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2003 08:00:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xbc.nu) (172.17.19.19) by mx.xbc.nu with SMTP; 4 Dec 2003 08:00:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3FCEE9B1.3050703@xbc.nu> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:57:00 -0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: sl, en-gb, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rms@gnu.org CC: Zack Weinberg , eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com 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> <87n0aaj4cl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87wu9esxu6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87ad69rf42.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00307.txt.bz2 Richard Stallman wrote: >The point is that most programs nowadays use Autoconf, so other uses are >few. > > Sorry to barge in again, but config.guess is used by lots of things besides programs that use Autoconf; e.g., various sysadmin scripts, testing and compilation frameworks, etc. etc., where Autoconf is inappropriate but config.guess is immensely useful. I've written many such tools myself, and I'd even venture to guess that the numer of such uses is on the same order as the number of Autoconf uses. Config.guess is not just a utility for Autoconf; it's a standalone tool, and any changes made to it should be evaluated in that light. Please don't make incompatible changes without a very good reason. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." --Emerson -- Brane Čibej http://www.xbc.nu/brane/