Re: Updating config.guess/config.sub for ppc64le

Re: Tom Lane 2014-05-10 <27476(dot)1399729986(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> writes:
> > to support ppc64le, config.guess needs to be updated. The attached
> > patch is what was reported to work for Ubuntu.
>
> Our normal procedure is
>
> o update config.guess and config.sub at the start of beta
> (from http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config)
>
> (memo to self: this better happen today). Is that patch just subbing
> in the latest upstream scripts, or is it doing something else?

Fwiw, shouldn't that also happen in back branches?

Updating config.* there gives you portability to new architectures for
free - and there should be no risk of breaking anything.

Christoph
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