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Re: second release candidate for 2.10
>I've gotten a concerned email from someone active in GCC development.
>GCC 2.96/3.0 will ship with a newer config.guess than 2.10. FreeBSD 3+
>is now identified as "i386-unknown-freebsd4.0" where Binutils 2.10 will
>use "i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.0". He felt that there could be some
>problems in using a cross-toolchain or what not.
>
>Are you open to a config.guess change for 2.10 release that would make
>the two match?
Yes, if you are convinced that this would be a real problem (and won't
introduce any other incompatibilities, say with gcc 2.95). I don't know
enough about the issues to say.
But I would rather leave this to binutils 2.10.1. GCC 3.0 isn't likely to be
released anytime soon.
p.