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Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p
- From: Harlan Stenn <hstenn at cisco dot com>
- To: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- Cc: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>,Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit dot com>, automake at gnu dot org,hstenn at cisco dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:59:26 -0800
- Subject: Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p
> > It is way to late to even think about changing things now.
It's never too late to improve software.
The amount of software that will be created from here on can be reasonably
expected to be MUCH greater than what has been written so far.
The change to, for example:
i686-DistroRev-linux-gnu
should be pretty painless as far as that goes. Certainly not as painful as
going from the 3 to 4 part form when the linux-gnu form was introduced.
> Well, you can create and maintain a 'config.linuxdistro' on your own...
Yes, and then code:
...
cvo=`config.guess`
case $cvo in
*-*-linux-gnu)
cvo=`config.linuxdistro`
;;
esac
...
everywhere one would otherwise simply code:
cvo=`config.guess`
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