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Re: config.guess and freedom
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Ralf Corsepius wrote:
| I don't know how libtool applies config.guess and if/how my
| problems with libtool are connected to config.guess'ing.
Here is a short (but not atypical) example of the sort of thing libtool needs
config.guess for:
case $host_os in
aix3*)
~ # AIX sometimes has problems with the GCC collect2 program. For some
~ # reason, if we set the COLLECT_NAMES environment variable, the problems
~ # vanish in a puff of smoke.
~ if test "X${COLLECT_NAMES+set}" != Xset; then
~ COLLECT_NAMES=
~ export COLLECT_NAMES
~ fi
~ ;;
esac
We use it frequently:
$ fgrep 'case $host' `which libtool` \
- - /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/*.m4 | wc -l
~ 71
| Anyway, my comment was meant generally. I was referring to attempts to
| apply config.guess'ed valued to configuration tables, e.g. something
| similar to this:
| case $host_os in
| redhat7.3) f=/etc/txt.cfg;;
| redhat8.0) f=/etc/sysconfig/txt.cfg;;
| redhat*) f=/etc/foo/txt.cfg;;
| suse9.0) f=/etc/var/txt.cfg;;
| solaris*) f=/etc/config/txt.cfg;;
| ...
| esac
Not dissimilar, excepting your emphasis on linux distributions. I have no
strong opinion on the linux-gnu argument, but I think your original comment
devalues config.guess unfairly.
Cheers,
Gary.
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