On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 5:14 PM Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

but Fricas still has a version from 2014, according to

timestamp='2014-03-23' (in config.guess)
timestamp='2014-09-11' (in config.sub)

This is more 5 years old.

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