Hello, Autoconf,

Browsing the CVS development tree at
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/autoconf/config.guess

I see:

    *:OS/390:*:*)
        echo i370-ibm-openedition
        exit 0 ;;

Of course I'm pleased to see that OS/390 is being recognized in a
future autoconf.  However, I see a possible conflict.  In a widely
distributed autoconf variant from Mortice Kern Systems Inc. at:

File that you are currently viewing
   Linkname: MKS Products - S/390 � OpenEdition--GNU Utilities
        URL: http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm
        
Link that you currently have selected
   Linkname: Other
        URL: http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/register.htm

I find instead:

    *:MVS:*:* | *:OS390:*:*|*:OS/390:*:*)
                               # uname -m gives a processor model number
        echo s390-ibm-os390    # on R1 and R2, uname -s reports OS390
        exit 0 ;;              # on R3, uname -s reports OS/390

I invite you to consider which of these should be in the mainstream autoconf.
Possible factors to weigh are that "370", "MVS" and "OpenEdition" are all
obsolete terminology.

The MKS variant also has other OS/390 adaptations you might wish to consider,
including a test for the POSIX C compiler, c89, that I find suggested in
your TODO file, and a configuration test for the EBCDIC character set.

Thanks,
gil
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