config.guess (was: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/libmikmod/files patch-config.sub)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:15:08PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > What is the benefit of a global config.guess?
> > 
> > My instinct is that a global config.guess would cause problems with
> > some ports: I would expect that a lot of ports hack their configure
> > scripts in unmentionable ways that make this difficult.  What was
> > OpenBSD's experience in this regard?  Do the benefits outweigh the
> > pain?
> 
> Then it will come as a surprise to you that OpenBSD's experience
> has been uniformly positive.  I cannot remember a single instance
> where overwriting the included config.guess with the system one
> caused any problem.  config.guess only provides the cpu-vendor-os
> triplet.  It does not interact with the rest of configure in other
> ways.

OK, I misunderstood the purpose of config.guess.  This sounds like the
right approach!

Kris
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