Patches for config.{guess,sub} needed

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Fri Jul 4 22:58:30 PDT 2003


Kris Kennaway wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:21:20PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:02:48PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > >=20
> > > and send me patches against these scripts to DTRT when run on ia64 and
> > > amd64?  These patches should also be submitted back to the GNU people.
> >=20
> > No patches are needed for ia64. The latest config.sub works.
> >=20
> > On amd64, config.guess prints "amd64-unknown-freebsd5.1", which
> > I expect is correct. Attached a patch for config.sub to recognize
> > amd64 as the machine. Things may be more complicated on amd64,
> > because I'm not sure people have settled for amd64 or x86_64 as
> > the machine name.
> 
> Thanks.  As soon as I get an amd64 world built I'll give this a try on
> sledge.  I'll also start a new ia64 build run on pluto1.

The 07-02-2003 version I downloaded seemed to work as expected on sledge
without any suprises.  Mind you, I'm not entirely sure what these things
are supposed to be doing. :-)

Cheers,
-Peter
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