Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

2020-09-19 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 04:10:24AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > > The command line interface of system programs should remain stable. > > You are assuming that system programs have a test suite that will > protect them from introducing regressions? I don't think that's realistic. > Even glibc has

Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

2020-09-19 Thread Bruno Haible
Ben Elliston wrote: > and 3.10 becomes unsupported after May 1 > next year. By the time this fix is propagated into packages that > include config.guess, I imagine most users will have upgraded to > >3.10. I had hoped that the fix would be contained in the GNU grep release that Jim Meyering is pre

Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

2020-09-19 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 03:30:54PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > The value of $host_os, determined by the current config.guess, is: > - On Alpine Linux 3.9: linux-musl > - On Alpine Linux 3.10: linux-gnu > - On Alpine Linux 3.12: linux-musl > > The reason is that config.guess tests 'ldd --ve

OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

2020-09-19 Thread Bruno Haible
The value of $host_os, determined by the current config.guess, is: - On Alpine Linux 3.9: linux-musl - On Alpine Linux 3.10: linux-gnu - On Alpine Linux 3.12: linux-musl The reason is that config.guess tests 'ldd --version'. However, in Alpine Linux 3.10, /usr/bin/ldd has been replaced with