Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:31 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >>> On 16.05.19 at 02:02, <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>
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> At least to me it is far from obvious why we would want/need to
> do this update, or where the canonical "latest version" lives and
> hence where this is coming from. Another question might be
> whether it is a good thing to pull this in as a single blob (covering
> a gap of 7 years), thus presumably also discarding authorship
> of dozens of people. But of course, in the end it's the people
> you've Cc-ed who need to decide whether this is fine to take in
> this shape.

No body should be editing this file. Ideally it would be autogenerated
by autoconf, but as we define AC_CANONICAL_HOST the file is not
generated (see [1]).

I have updated the commit to include the upstream SHA where we are
getting the file from.

The current file is so old that it doesn't support new architectures
such as RISC-V.

1: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Canonicalizing

Alistair

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> Jan
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