Re: Recent config.guess versions fail to recognize i?86-pc-linux-gnu

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I should probably have said "config.guess from recent software packages".  
> gcc-3.0.4's, which works, reports 2001-06-05 in response to config.guess 
> -t.  id3lib's, for a counter-example, ignores -t and returns 
> i586-pc-linux-gnu after patching or nothing at all before.  Foolish of me, 
> I suppose, to assume that the latest version of a software package under 
> active development would have an up-to-date config.guess.

You cannot trust even distributions to do it always right. Debian is the
only one I am aware that tries to do so, and that is for some loose
definition of 'try'.

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