Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> New platforms are introduced very slowly (and more slowly every year).
This is not my experience. I have to update config.{sub,guess} for a new
platform at user request at least once a year, whereas changed platform
names have never caused a problem for any of my packages in their entire
history. (The linux naming nonsense was brief and avoidable.)
Updating config.{sub,guess} without changing anything else in my package
is, in my experience, 100% safe to a first approximation. The few places
where it might cause problems can be dealt with when they arise, as rare
as they are.
> People who are using a bleeding-edge platform can expect to do extra
> work. The existing config.guess script is likely to be fine for 99.9%
> of the user base.
When you're doing work within a distribution that tries to support more
than x86 and amd64, you have a tendency to notice the 0.1%.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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