Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*

[Po Lu]

Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> writes:

> There are several GNU/Linux distributions that either use or can use
> musl libc already.  (See:
> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musl&oldid=1164590075>)
> Musl libc does not have the same features as GNU libc, so it is
> rightly a different ABI target, however, the system is still a GNU
> variant, so its configure tuple should still match *-gnu-* for the
> same reasons that the GNU project wants to call the overall system
> GNU/Linux.

These systems are not GNU/Linux systems, since they don't incorporate
the GNU libc; this particularly applies to Autoconf users, since they
will not have access to extensions furnished by the GNU libc.

>> To top it all off, considerations for such systems affect the entire GNU
>> project, and config cannot unilaterally ordain decisions regarding their
>> treatment.  config-patches is definitely the wrong mailing list.
>
> OK then, what is the right mailing list?

gnu-system-discuss, maybe?