Bug#115655: [ARCH][DPKG-ARCHITECTURE] outputs non-canonical GNU system type
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> It's useful to pass to anything that accepts a GNU type, because they
That's a very weak excuse to keep this unfixed. Please document it as a
BUGS entry in the dpkg-architecture manpage, at the very least.
> either understand non-canonical types or canonicalise types before using
> them.
They *always* canonicalse types. But that can only be done safely if
whatever you gave to config.sub is unique enough. For *now*, stuff lacking
-gnu are good enough, so nothing breaks.
BTW, what you have in the dpkg-architecture manpage about how to use the
output of dpkg-architecture with autoconf would best be replaced to a
pointer to the README.Debian for autotools-dev. Really. If you'd rather
have it on a manpage, I can write one and add it to autotools-dev. Does
autotools-dev(7) sound good?
> It's suitable for "configure", and good enough for gcc; seems reasonable
> to me.
Since when are we about "good enough" anything? If that's the explanation,
please reopen the bug and tag it wontfix.
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