redhat-rpm-config config.sub/guess are old

[Richard W.M. Jones]

The versions of config.sub and config.guess in redhat-rpm-config are
3+ years old.  I'd like to update these to the very latest versions,
primarily because the upstream versions support riscv64.

Is there a reason not to do that?  I don't want to break something
unexpectedly.

Rich.

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[Panu Matilainen]

On 10/13/2016 04:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  The versions of config.sub and config.guess in redhat-rpm-config are
>  3+ years old.  I'd like to update these to the very latest versions,
>  primarily because the upstream versions support riscv64.
>
>  Is there a reason not to do that?  I don't want to break something
>  unexpectedly. 
Just go ahead. The reason they were updated three years ago was exactly 
the same: support for new hardware. There hasn't been any demand for 
updating since then I guess :)

	- Panu -

>  Rich.
>

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:23:24 PM CEST Panu Matilainen wrote:
>  On 10/13/2016 04:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  >
>  > The versions of config.sub and config.guess in redhat-rpm-config are
>  > 3+ years old.  I'd like to update these to the very latest versions,
>  > primarily because the upstream versions support riscv64.
>  >
>  > Is there a reason not to do that?  I don't want to break something
>  > unexpectedly.
>  
>  Just go ahead. The reason they were updated three years ago was exactly 
>  the same: support for new hardware. There hasn't been any demand for 
>  updating since then I guess :) 
I'll do the same for automake.  Thanks.

Pavel

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 06:23:24PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>  On 10/13/2016 04:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  >
>  >The versions of config.sub and config.guess in redhat-rpm-config are
>  >3+ years old.  I'd like to update these to the very latest versions,
>  >primarily because the upstream versions support riscv64.
>  >
>  >Is there a reason not to do that?  I don't want to break something
>  >unexpectedly.
>  
>  Just go ahead. The reason they were updated three years ago was
>  exactly the same: support for new hardware. There hasn't been any
>  demand for updating since then I guess :) 
Thanks Panu.

I updated this package.

Also automake which carries config.sub and config.guess around too.
Perhaps these should be combined?!

Rich.

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[Pavel Raiskup]

On Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:50:20 PM CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  Also automake which carries config.sub and config.guess around too.
>  Perhaps these should be combined?! 
I don't think merging is right way to do.  To be honest, I should update
gnuconfig files in automake more often than I've done so far.  That's because
automake brings sources into autotooled distribution tarballs, and those should
be upd2date.

On the other hand, updating gnuconfig files in redhat-rpm-config is something
which is used by %configure, and something which is worth updating once we have
a request for it.

Pavel