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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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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

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