From:	pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:30:12 +0300
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Subject:	Re: config.guess patch for new uname()
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On 5 Aug 99, at 13:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:
> 
> > If we are going change uname I should patch config.guess in 
> > gcc-2.95.
> 
> I didn't check in the change yet.  I'd prefer people to see how many 
> packages does it break, before I make up my mind.  Laurynas says it only 
> breaks Autoconf, but it seems there are more packages that will need 
> changes.  If there are too many, I think we should defer this to the next 
> release, and in the meantime config.guess changes will propagate into the 
> GNU sources.
> 

I think it will break many packages as config.guess is in many of 
them (like gcc-2.95). If we are not going to put it in, then I'll leaving
it for next update of DJGPP port of gcc (maybe gcc-2.95.1)

Andris

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