On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:30 AM Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Waldek,
>
> > Those dates are meanigless, just old cruft remaing in the files.
> > Should I remove them?
>
> What is your rationale for sticking with config.guess and config.sub as
> we have it now?
>
> Doesn't it make sense to outsource the maintenance of those files? I
> don't see it as our responsibility that apart from the FriCAS code
> itself we should maintain generic build support. Take it use it and let
> the bugs be handled by upstream. That would make sense in my eyes even
> if the updates happen only every 2 or 3 years. It would be simply some
> stuff less that we need to care about. The world is moving on and FriCAS
> does not have so much manpower.

Indeed, these files are basically needed for normal functioning of up
to date autoconf.
Why would one want to vendor them, is beyond me.

>
> Ralf
>
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