Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:56:35 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: config.guess (was: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/libmikmod/files patch-config.sub) Message-ID: <20030620165635.GA53379@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <bctg5s$etk$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200306190941.h5J9fIYL073911@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030619100641.GA22562@rot13.obsecurity.org> <bcsmih$2g2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20030619214555.GA34067@rot13.obsecurity.org> <bctg5s$etk$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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--Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:15:08PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >=20 > > What is the benefit of a global config.guess? > >=20 > > My instinct is that a global config.guess would cause problems with > > some ports: I would expect that a lot of ports hack their configure > > scripts in unmentionable ways that make this difficult. What was > > OpenBSD's experience in this regard? Do the benefits outweigh the > > pain? >=20 > Then it will come as a surprise to you that OpenBSD's experience > has been uniformly positive. I cannot remember a single instance > where overwriting the included config.guess with the system one > caused any problem. config.guess only provides the cpu-vendor-os > triplet. It does not interact with the rest of configure in other > ways. OK, I misunderstood the purpose of config.guess. This sounds like the right approach! Kris --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+8zzDWry0BWjoQKURAjIKAJ473CCZTOi4fOv0iklmlg3dPToHdgCfRXSO fl6gyiDRF3Ygwdaj3GSGjFU= =FnOP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--
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