From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 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}
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ad69rf42.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ARacX-0004dy-6z@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:17:01 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > 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?
Paul Eggert already presented evidence that roughly 10% of a sample of
configure.in scripts not only look at the configuration name, but
match it against patterns containing the string "solaris" or "sunos".
To my mind that is enough to rule out the proposed change as too costly.
And, for the third time, Autoconf is not the only user of
config.guess/config.sub.
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-03 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 12:25 Ben Elliston
2003-11-20 14:03 ` Ben Elliston
2003-11-20 14:12 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-20 18:29 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-20 20:35 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 20:50 ` Albert Chin-A-Young
2003-11-20 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-20 21:44 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-21 0:57 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-21 1:15 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-23 12:51 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-23 23:40 ` Branko Čibej
2003-11-24 8:17 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-24 8:28 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-24 12:08 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-24 14:35 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-24 21:54 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-25 10:47 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-25 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-26 6:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-26 12:05 ` Ben Elliston
2003-11-27 1:58 ` Russ Allbery
2003-11-25 10:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-26 3:49 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-20 21:33 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-20 21:40 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 23:32 ` Phil Edwards
2003-11-21 23:56 ` tm_gccmail
2003-11-22 0:01 ` Joe Buck
2003-11-27 18:55 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-29 1:42 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-29 2:24 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-01 21:29 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-01 22:09 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-02 21:40 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-02 21:45 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-02 22:21 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-03 17:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-03 17:23 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2003-12-03 17:33 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-04 7:42 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 8:57 ` Branko Čibej
2003-12-05 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-05 18:43 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 18:53 ` Joe Buck
2003-12-06 12:11 ` Nix
2003-12-07 23:22 ` Branko Čibej
2003-12-04 10:16 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 11:16 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-04 21:41 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-04 22:07 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 23:04 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-04 23:11 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-04 23:27 ` Joe Buck
2003-12-04 23:38 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 23:41 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-04 23:42 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 11:46 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-06 7:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-06 20:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-06 21:56 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-07 9:25 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-07 15:26 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-07 19:25 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 5:00 ` Russ Allbery
2003-12-05 12:37 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-08 13:29 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-08 22:44 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-08 23:48 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-08 23:59 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-10 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-12 5:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-12 7:19 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-12 21:27 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-05 23:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 14:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-20 21:55 bkorb
2003-11-20 23:24 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 23:52 ` Bruce Korb
2003-12-02 22:58 Wolfgang Bangerth
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