>> I had downloaded from >> "http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess"; ... > That doesn't correspond to the output you sent; which says that > config.guess is from 2008 -- a very old one.
That URL really does yield an old config.guess from 2008. It refers to the *CVS* repository for config.*, and I suppose 2008 is the last time that was updated. Good catch!
