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On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 05:51, Harlan Stenn wrote: > [1] There are people who think a config.guess output that says: > > i686-pc-linux-gnu > > is "normal", while some of us feel that is a particularly useless value and > would prefer to see something like: > > i686-pc-redhat7.3 > > instead, just like the original documentation spec'd out. > The differences between ALL of the various linux-gnu implementations are so slight that they are far more suited to feature tests than something like this. Libtool, probably the greatest user of config.guess output, manages just fine to assume "all GNU/Linux is similar enough". Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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