Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, at 9:49 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
I further argue that alternate output modes should only be supported
at config.sub; config.guess should always produce the current hyphen-
delimited tuple format.
That would preclude autoconf using the new format. We don't want to
have to run both config.sub and config.guess, only one or the other
depending on whether there were --build/--host/--target options on the
command line.
I think that is ridiculous, considering how many other subprocesses
configure will typically spawn---and most of them are far heavier-weight
than config.sub! Passing each tuple through config.sub to canonicalize
and parse it should not be a serious problem.
-- Jacob
