Hello,
I would certainly like to have these files updated, but unfortunately
the license on these files changed from GPL2 to GPL3. This essentially
means that the switch is non trivial from a legal perspective and the
impression I've received when I last inquired about updating these files
was that it's unlikely to ever happen unless a very strong case can be
presented for why it's needed.
So the reason we have the over engineered solution for config.guess is
simply that it's much easier than getting legal approval for updating
these files.
/Erik
On 2014-11-07 19:53, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 11/07/2014 06:00 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
3. pull in the new version of config.guess and config.sub from [1]
which already seem to have the changes you need.
I'm all in favour of point three which would also allow us to get rid
of some of the hacks which are currently in config.guess. And now, as
we're still early in the jdk9 development the risk of doing this seems
minimal, but let's see what the build-dev guy say?
So am I. build-dev people, do you want me to import config.guess from
upstream? I can create a new issue.
Andrew.
