Re: [MiNT] config.guess and config.sub

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:49 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> The following 2 files are shipped with any GNU source package:
> 
> config.guess
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
> Attempt to guess a canonical system name.
> 
> config.sub
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD
> Configuration validation subroutine script.
> 
> If I understood well, config.guess tries to guess the triplet of the 
> build host (like m68k-atari-mint), and config.sub convert a specific or 
> abbreviated configuration name to a standard triplet.
> 
> The links I have indicated above are the official ones. They have been 
> containing references to MiNT for ages.
> 
> I wonder if these files needs updating.
> 
> Especially, in config.guess, is ${UNAME_RELEASE} relevant ?
> Until now, I have removed that release version in the binutils/gcc 
> patches to avoid problems.

I don't think UNAME_RELEASE is relevant for us. Amiga doesn't use it
either.

> There are references to milan and and hades. Is it a good thing ?
> In that case, aranym should be added, because it returns "unknown" as 
> machine.

They need to be there as `uname -m` returns them. I guess whatever that
returns on aranym should be added too.

> I don't remember exactly, but if these scripts don't return the right 
> value, some directories or prefixes are wrong when compiling the 
> binutils and gcc natively.

I remove UNAME_RELEASE in the gentoo build.

> Any remark will be appreciated about what should be done on these files. 
> I think they are a prerequisite before integrating the MiNT patches into 
> the official binutils and gcc.

Alan.