Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 08:43 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote:

> I meant that you are able to patch the very small part of
> config.guess/config.sub with checking for environmental variables and
> thats all -> you don't have to touch this package in future.  The patched
> config.sub is able to call system's one.  No need to bootstrap.

There are thousands of copies of config.guess/sub (or configure scripts)
out there (in tarballs) with no support for this at all. Once it is
added to config.guess/sub in git (or autoconf) then it will take many
years before the majority of copies of config.guess/sub (or configure
scripts) have support for this. This is what I mean by bootstrap phase.

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