Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:45:55 -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: <20030619214555.GA34067@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <bcsmih$2g2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200306190941.h5J9fIYL073911@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030619100641.GA22562@rot13.obsecurity.org> <bcsmih$2g2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:58:09PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: >=20 > > Peter had suggested making ports use a global config.sub so we don't > > have to patch hundreds of ports to teach them about ia64, amd64 and > > any other future processor architectures. I think this would be > > worthwhile pursuing - NetBSD or OpenBSD may have already done work in > > this direction. >=20 > OpenBSD has a CONFIG_GUESS_DIRS variable (defaults to WRKSRC). > Before configure is run, global config.guess and config.sub files > are copied to the designated directories. What is the benefit of a global config.guess? 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? Kris --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+8i8TWry0BWjoQKURAm9gAKCnCFtXySU2wmkXy8K1PJC47emfsgCgh0H6 +Co+MwG/4OlTeh/7O7prel0= =WLQp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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