OK I understand. So am I right, that in such a case there is no way to introduce new OS targets to branch 4.9 and 5? What about 6 branch and trunk?
On the other hand: this is my first patch and I'm not quite familiar with the procedure of applying patches to upstream. Who should upload my patch, when it gets accepted? Thank you, Jakub 2016-05-13 20:03 GMT+02:00 Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>: > On Fri, 13 May 2016, Jakub Sejdak wrote: > >> Is it OK for trunk, gcc-4.9, gcc-5 and gcc-6 branches? > > It's not appropriate to update these scripts from upstream on release > branches. For example, config.guess changed a while back to output > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu in place of x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, and clearly we > don't want to make such a change on 4.9 and 5 branches, which have > versions predating that change. > > -- > Joseph S. Myers > jos...@codesourcery.com
