Re: config.guess and $CC

[Peter O'Gorman]

James Youngman wrote:

> Maybe to save diagnostic effort in other quarters we should issue a
> warning for the benefit of maintainers when we're overriding the
> output of "uname -m".  One could hope that such warning messages would
> get included in people's bug reports.  There is an argument for even
> issuing a warning of a plan to change the behaviour without actually
> channging it yet.  Unfortunately though, the percolation time on new
> versions of config.guess is so long that we'd essentially be making
> life hard for lots of users for quite a long time, in order to avoid
> making life hard for a smaller number of maintainers for less time.

I realize that it makes sense to have config.guess return
x86_64-apple-darwin and ppc64-apple-darwin etc, and if such a change is
implemented there will be no need to print a warning because - it makes
sense.

Peter
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