Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

[Warren Young]

On 5/15/2013 11:20, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i understand the point you're making.  however, ~10 years of building from
> source in Gentoo and doing this for every single build has shown that in
> practice, it's irrelevant.

It's irrelevant *for* *Gentoo*.  Not all autoconfiscated source trees 
are in Gentoo.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were an iceberg effect here: it could 
well be that ~90% of all source trees using the autotools aren't even 
publicly visible, much less incorporated into the major Linux distros.

There's some self-selection bias going on here, too.  Software that 
fails to build in the Gentoo build system obviously won't get adopted 
into Gentoo, if no one bothers to try and fix the breakage.

For what it's worth, I'm not entirely against your position.  I do a bit 
of packaging work for Cygwin, and we've got the same core problem over 
there, too, particularly with the nascent Cygwin 64 effort.