Re: config.{sub,guess} and NetBSD

[Nathan Hawkins <utsl@quic.net>]

Joel Baker wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 05:42:09PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:29:18PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote:
> >
> > The only packages where this caused any great trouble were gcc and 
> > binutils, and that was fairly easily rectified.
>
>
> Hmmm. GCC seems to be content as long as the triple output by
> dpkg-architecture agrees with what config.guess is producing (because
> things get put into a directory named by config.guess output, which is then
> read by dpkg-architecture output rather than config.guess, which may well
> be a bug).

Probably. I wish people would quit using dpkg --print-architecture in 
place of dpkg-architecture.


> What other issues are there, and are they about to bite me in the ass?

There are a handful of packages that will need patching for your new 
config triple. (Beyond patching config.guess/.sub) Python and tcl will 
need it, IIRC. But these aren't really hard, just nuisense.

	---Nathan