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 -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com
