Adam Jensen <han...@riseup.net> wrote:
> > FreeBSD is more playful: It has ${ARCH}-portbld-freebsd
> > ${OSREL} in its ports tree and ...
>
> I wonder how the FreeBSD guys changed it "without breaking every
> gnu-configure script in existence".
They didn't. I think espie is simply mistaken. FreeBSD has a check
whether to use --build=${CONFIGURE_TARGET} or call older configure
scripts directly with ${CONFIGURE_TARGET}, and occasionally there's
a :S/amd64/x86_64/, but that's it. There are no patches and FreeBSD
does not overwrite the included config.sub.
As far as I can tell, that middle part is simply ignored.
> X-Mailer:Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.20; i386-unknown-openbsd5.4)
>
> To the uninitiated masses, it might seem like the system was
> sloppily configured or in some other way the admin was confused.
At least it's consistent. FreeBSD's collection of
-undermydesk- (gcc)
-marcel- (gdb)
-unknown- (clang, binutils, occasionally in ports)
-portbld- (most ports)
would never confuse anybody, would it?
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
