Ben and all - courtesy of Adam and Dick (cc'd, to whom all questions should be directed :), here is our prospective patch to eliminate invoking the compiler on new-enough Macs. (diff -c output seemed the most readable.)
The idea was not to perturb the results, but just avoid the compiler invocation when it's known not to be needed. So the existing darwin compilation block is used as-is for the uname -r <= 10. When uname -r is >= 11 (on Intel), it's known for sure that 64-bit processors are being used. For the record, more data on the confusing correspondences between MacOSX namaes, release versions, and uname output is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uname. Hope it flies. Thanks, Karl P.S. Independent aside: I suggest using test ... in the few cases where [ ... ] is used now. One of which is in the original darwin block here. *** ORIG/config.guess Tue Jun 11 00:57:51 2013 --- ./config.guess Sat Nov 9 16:18:41 2013 *************** *** 1260,1276 **** if test "$UNAME_PROCESSOR" = unknown ; then UNAME_PROCESSOR=powerpc fi ! if [ "$CC_FOR_BUILD" != 'no_compiler_found' ]; then ! if (echo '#ifdef __LP64__'; echo IS_64BIT_ARCH; echo '#endif') | \ ! (CCOPTS= $CC_FOR_BUILD -E - 2>/dev/null) | \ ! grep IS_64BIT_ARCH >/dev/null ! then ! case $UNAME_PROCESSOR in ! i386) UNAME_PROCESSOR=x86_64 ;; ! powerpc) UNAME_PROCESSOR=powerpc64 ;; ! esac ! fi ! fi echo ${UNAME_PROCESSOR}-apple-darwin${UNAME_RELEASE} exit ;; *:procnto*:*:* | *:QNX:[0123456789]*:*) --- 1260,1286 ---- if test "$UNAME_PROCESSOR" = unknown ; then UNAME_PROCESSOR=powerpc fi ! if test `echo "$UNAME_RELEASE" |sed -e 's/\..*//g'` -le 10 ; then ! # note that results will vary, depending on which compiler is set ! if [ "$CC_FOR_BUILD" != 'no_compiler_found' ]; then ! if (echo '#ifdef __LP64__'; echo IS_64BIT_ARCH; echo '#endif') | \ ! (CCOPTS= $CC_FOR_BUILD -E - 2>/dev/null) | \ ! grep IS_64BIT_ARCH >/dev/null ! then ! case $UNAME_PROCESSOR in ! i386) UNAME_PROCESSOR=x86_64 ;; ! powerpc) UNAME_PROCESSOR=powerpc64 ;; ! esac ! fi ! fi ! elif test "$UNAME_PROCESSOR" = i386 ; then ! # Avoid executing cc on OS X 10.9, as it ships with a stub that ! # puts up a graphical alert prompting to install developer tools. ! # Any system running Mac OS X 10.7 or later (darwin 11 and later) ! # is required to have a 64-bit processor. This is not true of the ! # ARM version of darwin that Apple uses in portable devices. ! UNAME_PROCESSOR=x86_64 ! fi echo ${UNAME_PROCESSOR}-apple-darwin${UNAME_RELEASE} exit ;; *:procnto*:*:* | *:QNX:[0123456789]*:*) _______________________________________________ config-patches mailing list config-patches@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/config-patches
