On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 10:14:37PM -0500, Earnie wrote: > The question that needs answered is what issue was being resolved by > the addition of the -r? The resolution here may need filters based > on the build host.
I authored the change myself in May this year (as we only recently started using 'read' in config.sub). Ny recollection is that I only did it for belts and braces. There was no particular problem I was solving. It is hard to imagine that there will be any triplets containing escapes. Cheers, Ben
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