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Re: Why does dejagnu use an old config.guess?
- To: ac131313 at cygnus dot com (Andrew Cagney)
- Subject: Re: Why does dejagnu use an old config.guess?
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:17:18 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
>
> "H.J. Lu" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are 2 config.guess in dejagnu-19991108.tar.bz2:
> >
> > # find -name config.guess
> > ./dejagnu/config.guess
> > ./config.guess
> >
> > ./dejagnu/config.guess is older than ./config.guess. But it is the one
> > got installed. Any particular reason to do that? It is very annoying
> > since ./dejagnu/config.guess doesn't support the concurrent usage.
>
> FYI, Dejagnu included with GDB is probably best described as being in
> maintaner mode - I don't believe that any one is doing doing significant
> work on that version. Consequently the general aproach is ``if it ain't
> broke, don't fix it''.
>
It is broken. I have been fixing it for years.
--
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)