On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:56 +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > > And I'm not sure which is more fragile, user input or coded checks. > I don't see a significant difference between something that (apparently) > works that is based on a version number check, an OS version check, or a > feature test. Grumble: The point is: GCC version checks are a broken concept and will never work, primarily because version strings are subject to change at any time (GCC vendors are supposed to modify them!), so any GCC version string pattern match will always fail at some time. The essential difference to target tuples is: Target tuples are de-facto standardized (by config.guess and config.sub) and unlike GCC version strings can't easily be changed (Remember the linux-gnu vs. linux vs. linux-libc* madness). Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
