Thanks, applied.
Ben
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On 05/18/2018 05:42 PM, Ben Elliston wrote:
${parameter:-word} is in POSIX, but I don't know how portable it is to
old Bourne shells. Paul?
Although it does not work on old Bourne shells, I suspect we don't need
to worry about them any more.
The "Shellology" section of the Autoconf manual s
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 05:57:20PM -0400, John Ericson wrote:
> The 4th and last rule is the trickiest, and most fuzzy human. If the
> basic_machine was left as as, or appended with a vendor, I
> considered the pattern less an alias, and more a defaulting of a
> canonical or near canonical name. T
To be really precise, with my change:
$ ./config.sub 386bsd-linux
Invalid configuration `386bsd-linux': machine `386bsd' not recognized
$ ./config.sub 386bsd
i386-pc-bsd
$ ./config.sub mingw32-bsd
Invalid configuration `mingw32-bsd': machine `mingw32' not recognized
$ ./config.sub mingw32
i686
"mingw32" would still work. Indeed I do not want to break compatability on intended short-hands like that. But "mingw32-vms" or something rediculous like that will no longer. (The "vms" is ignored currently.)JohnOn May 18, 2018 10:00 AM, Earnie wrote:
On 5/17/2018 5:57 PM, John Ericson wrote:
On 5/17/2018 5:57 PM, John Ericson wrote:
> Currently, there are number of aliases that expand both on their own and as
> part of multi-component configurations. For example:
>
> $ ./config.sub 386bsd-linux
> i386-pc-bsd
>
> This change moves all of those to just trigger on a single
