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Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p
- From: Harlan Stenn <hstenn at cisco dot com>
- To: Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit dot com>
- Cc: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>, Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>,hstenn at cisco dot com, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:58:52 -0800
- Subject: Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p
> > [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 a=
> nd
> > 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.
Are you really serious? What is the "domain" of these similarities?
- RC files?
- packaging mechanism?
- automount filesystem selection based on different OS versions?
> Libtool, probably the greatest user of config.guess output, manages just
> fine to assume "all GNU/Linux is similar enough".
autoconf/configure is by no means the only consumer of config.guess output.
H