Re: Regarding my two patches against config.sub

[Yann Droneaud]

Le samedi 02 février 2013 à 20:08 +1100, Ben Elliston a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:23:09PM +0100, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> 
> > With the current config.sub, I'm getting:
> >     $ ./config.sub X86-LINUX
> >     Invalid configuration `X86-LINUX': machine `X86' not recognized
> 
> Making config.sub case insensitive would be a departure from the
> convention for Unix shell utilities (case sensitive).  Hence, I am not
> fond of this patch, but thank you anyway. 

It's not very different from hostname, email, etc. case is not important
for them and it's tied to Unix for a long time :)

config.guess already convert of lot a string to lower-case, it's not so
different.

There's currently no use of case to distinguish between different
architecture/operating system/kernel/ etc, so use a canonical lowercase
name should not create regression and may improve usage of config.sub by
third party.

>  Is there a particular problem with MiNT you were trying to fix?
> 

Not at all, but when converting the string to lowercase, I've found the
way MiNT was recognized seems not consistent.

Regards

-- 
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA