> As I mentioned earlier when this was proposed at the Automake list, I believe > that this proposal represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose > of GNU configuration tuples. > > GNU configuration tuples are meant to name ABIs, and building for a different > configuration tuple implies building for a different (presumably > incompatible) ABI. The VENDOR field was intended to name a *hardware* > vendor, to account for different vendors using the same CPU architecture with > different supporting logic. > > The VENDOR field is *not* intended as a place to put distribution branding. > Setting VENDOR to "suse" (or "fedora" or "debian", etc.) is claiming that > each distribution has its own unique ABI and amounts to thoroughly fracturing > GNU/Linux. > > Not only should this not be integrated upstream, but openSuSE should drop > those patches entirely and revert to using the standard configuration tuples.
I am going to follow this advice and remove the patch from the automake packaging in openSUSE. Sorry for the noises in both mailing conversion, and thanks for your time and explanations! All the best, Valentin Lefebvre Linux Distribution Engineer - packager Member of System Boot and Init team SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
