Re: Rethinking configuration tuples

[Po Lu]

"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org> writes:

> I'm inclined to remove windows-gnu from config.sub instead of renaming or
> canonicalizing it because, firstly, there is no GNU libc on windows, and,
> secondly, windows-gnu as used by LLVM means MinGW, but for that we already
> have mingw*, and we should avoid adding new canonical names for the same
> thing.  We could add canonicalization of windows-mingw* into mingw*, but
> if nobody uses the former, why bother?
>
> At the same time, I'm inclined to leave windows-msvc as is because,
> unlike windows-gnu, it does exist, and the only one who objected against
> windows-msvc and suggested to canonicalize windows-msvc into winnt was
> Po Lu, but the arguments provided against windows-msvc were not convincing.

Why not?

I have on my hand several programs which use -winnt*, such as many old
releases of Emacs.  And users should be capable of replacing config.sub
and config.guess with newer versions without ill effect.