Re: [PATCH] config.sub: Accept LLVM-style $cpu-$vendor-windows-cygnus

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:59:22AM -0400, John Ericson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 6:01 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > The issue with adding new names duplicating already supported ones is that
> > every piece of software that handles the old name would have to be patched
> > eventually to handle the new name as well.
> 
> Yes, that is true. I have no good answer for that.
> 
> > Of course config.sub can provide a canonicalization of windows-cygnus into
> > cygwin if it helps.
> 
> I was worried that would close off the possibility of adding them as normal 
> forms later, but maybe it's better to just do it, if otherwise we wouldn't 
> support it at all.

I wouldn't say that would help adding them later, but that certainly
wouldn't block them either, so I suggest adding an alias as it seems
to be the best thing we can currently do.


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