Re: 1.8 and mkdir_p

[Harlan Stenn]

> > It is way to late to even think about changing things now.

It's never too late to improve software.

The amount of software that will be created from here on can be reasonably
expected to be MUCH greater than what has been written so far.

The change to, for example:

 i686-DistroRev-linux-gnu

should be pretty painless as far as that goes.  Certainly not as painful as
going from the 3 to 4 part form when the linux-gnu form was introduced.

> Well, you can create and maintain a 'config.linuxdistro' on your own...

Yes, and then code:

 ...
 cvo=`config.guess`
 case $cvo in
  *-*-linux-gnu)
    cvo=`config.linuxdistro`
    ;;
 esac
 ...

everywhere one would otherwise simply code:

 cvo=`config.guess`

H