Re: OS detection wrong on Alpine Linux 3.10

[Bruno Haible]

Ben Elliston wrote:
> > You are assuming that system programs have a test suite that will
> > protect them from introducing regressions? I don't think that's realistic.
> > Even glibc has regressions occasionally.
> 
> Not really. It is not difficult for programmers to be disciplined and
> know then they are breaking an interface. Why did they do this?

It looks like they did not think at the 'ldd --version' interface [1][2].
Nor did they backport their own fix [3] to the 3.10-stable branch.

> > What do you hope to achieve by refusing to fix this in config.guess?
> 
> My aim is to keep config.guess maintainable. Is it really the job of
> config.guess to patch up everyone else's mistakes?

I share your feeling... But workarounds are a fact of life.

Bruno

[1] 
https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/%3CC0FBEB97-17F6-4B0B-B715-0B06EFAA062D%40bernhard-ehlers.de%3E
[2] 
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?h=3.10-stable&id=d4a7955cc72b9395779c20755df88f983763c43b
[3] 
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?h=3.11-stable&id=2f2f995d9d52484720dbe8b4b1649c132ec1feee