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Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p


From: Scott James Remnant
Subject: Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:43:12 +0000

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 05:51, Harlan Stenn wrote:

> [1] There are people who think a config.guess output that says:
> 
>  i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> is "normal", while some of us feel that is a particularly useless value and
> would prefer to see something like:
> 
>  i686-pc-redhat7.3
> 
> instead, just like the original documentation spec'd out.
> 
The differences between ALL of the various linux-gnu implementations are
so slight that they are far more suited to feature tests than something
like this.

Libtool, probably the greatest user of config.guess output, manages just
fine to assume "all GNU/Linux is similar enough".

Scott
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