Re: Use utsname version on {vax,mips}-dec-ultrix >= 3.0

[Ben Elliston]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 05:54:52PM +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:

> Use utsname version instead of preprocessor macros on
> {vax,mips}-dec-ultrix >= 3.0
> This was tested on mips-dec-ultrix3.1, vax-dec-ultrix3.0 and
> vax-dec-ultrix3.1
> With the old code vax-dec-ultrix3.0 was detected as vax-dec-ultrix only.

Good, thanks.

> Note: the original ultrix3 /bin/sh don't know shell functions, thus
> set_cc_for_build() { ... } caues a syntax error.
> "originally" set_cc_for_build was not a function ...

I made a pragmatic decision in July 2018 that maintainability of
set_cc_for_build was more important than supporting ancient shells
like that on Ultrix 3 (released 30 years ago, I should add). Those
very old systems can always use a pre-2018 version of config.guess.

Cheers,
Ben

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