[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS CVS Commit: openafs/src/config by shadow

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> > Log Message:
> > DELTA first-pass-at-alpha-linux-support-20010312
> > AUTHOR shadow@dementia.org
> > makefile and config files for new-style sysnames
> 
> Would be nice to hear a little bit about what the plan is here... 
> 
> U config/param.alpha_linux_2216_22.h
> U config/param.alpha_linux_2216_22_usr.h
> 
> looks very interesting and practical, but would like to know a bit more
> about how this is going to be applied to new and old platforms. I assume
> this is a lead-in to generating some of those configs out of configure,
> and having it be based on the config.guess string instead of a arbitrary
> sysname?

Old platforms are considered "grandfathered" and no default change will
be applied to them. 

A document describing how things will be applied to new platforms will be
forthcoming shortly. 

-D