Re: config.guess returns incorrect platform for alpine

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:57:08PM -0800, Cheng XU wrote:
> Please find the patch in the attachment. Thanks.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Cheng

If you're about to reintroduce the ldd check, please make sure the most
trustworthy of these checks (whatever it is) is attempted first and its
result is not discarded, please do not penalize non-musl platforms
unnecessarily.

Thanks,

> On Nov 4, 2020, 2:39 PM -0800, Ben Elliston <bje@air.net.au>, wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:31:05PM -0800, Cheng XU wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the info. However, it seems that the referenced issue is
> > > only valid for the old version of Alpine. For the latest version,
> > > the `ldd --version` works just fine. As shown in the below, the old
> > > config.guess reports the correct result in a fresh alpine docker
> > > container, while the new config.guess does not. Therefore, I think
> > > we should just keep the original `ldd --version` check. There is no
> > > harm to do so.
> >
> > Please suggest a patch, then.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben

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