On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 04:29:56PM +0000, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:18 PM Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:04:39PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > > Hi Waldek,
> > >
> > > The patch
> > >
> > > https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas/commit/4b371b0dd5129157bbbba9061cac0f529b340b70.patch
> > >
> > > updates config.guess and config.sub.
> > >
> > > I've just downloaded the respective files.
> > >
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/config_002eguess.html
> > >
> > > $ wget -O config.guess
> > > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD'
> > > $ wget -O config.sub
> > > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD'
> > >
> > > Can I commit or do you see problems? It builds on my machine.
> >
> > Why do you want to change them? They produce _different_ names
> > than GNU version and this is intentional.
>
> I don't understand what kind of intention it is, but at least with the
> previous reincarnation of these files
> in Sagemath we had to overwrite them with more modern copies, and we
> still do overwrite them with
> more recent versions.
>
> These files don't age well, as new systems and hardware come up they
> need updates.
New systems do not appear overnight. And most system do
not need anything special anyway, so this is slowly changing
tractable thing. There are bugs, and version from 2018-02-05
fixes last reported bug.
--
Waldek Hebisch
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