On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:31:57AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > I have a question regarding systems with more than one ABI, specifically > x86_64. If you consider for example the Debian distribution which has a > x86_64 kernel, but a completely x86 userland, config.guess still gives > you x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu as output. (I have been told this, but not > tried it myself). > > Now, if you configure a package and forget to add > --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu > or maybe use the setarch tool to set personality (I do not even know how > portable/available this is -- it exists in RedHat Fedora), it may break, > e.g. because of the __x86_64__ preprocessor define. > > Would it not make more sense to have config.guess return i686 instead of > x86_64? Is it just too late to make that change now? How would it even > be possible to detect a completely 32bit userland? > > Should I rather ask this on the config-patches list or elsewhere? could a config.site that comes with such distributions be used to handle this? -- <jakemsr@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
