Bug 208440

Summary:	Templates/config.{guess,sub}: Revert 319948, Canonicalize amd64 as x86_64 (restores upstream behavior)
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Jan Beich <jbeich>
Component:	Ports Framework	Assignee:	Port Management Team <portmgr>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	antoine, koobs, pi, ports-bugs
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-patch
Version:	Latest	Flags:	koobs: exp-run?
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any
URL:	http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/commit/?id=741a9b4e193c

Description Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2016-03-31 22:23:03 UTC

On FreeBSD amd64 uname -p and uname -m report amd64. GNU config canonicalizes it as x86_64. Various upstream projects may not expect amd64 in configure target triple, so ports end up overriding CONFIGURE_TARGET. This may not be easily noticible if otherwise the build doesn't break e.g., x11/babl.

Let's back out ports r319948 from *both* config.guess and config.sub.

  $ cd /path/to/config
  $ sh config.guess
  x86_64-unknown-freebsd11.0
  $ sh config.sub amd64-unknown-freebsd11.0
  x86_64-unknown-freebsd11.0

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/commit/?id=4e3da806cdd8

vs.

  $ cd /usr/ports
  $ sh Templates/config.guess
  amd64-unknown-freebsd11.0
  $ sh Templates/config.sub amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0
  amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0

Comment 1 Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2016-09-08 14:32:17 UTC

Did portmgr time out itself? If there were replies off bugzilla those need to be linked here.

Comment 2 Mathieu Arnold freebsd_committer

2016-09-08 14:33:38 UTC

No, but there was no patch, and you did not ask for an exp-run.  Feel free to re-open this and do so.

Comment 3 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer

2016-09-08 14:59:37 UTC

Re-open, clarifying summary. 

@Jan A patch (attachment) reverting r319948 may be more explicit for portmgr and potentially easier to exp-run for antoine

Comment 4 Baptiste Daroussin freebsd_committer

2019-09-05 08:21:41 UTC

imho we should proceed with this change, Jan, will you provide a patch? if not I will do it in the next couple of days.

Comment 5 Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2022-08-26 11:13:20 UTC

(In reply to Baptiste Daroussin from comment #4)
> Resolution: --- → Overcome By Events

Care to elaborate? I don't see any recent commits to Templates/config.guess, so FreeBSD Ports is still a special snowflake that requires s/x86_64/amd64/ in autotools-based projects. DragonFly and NetBSD don't require such patching on x86_64.

Comment 6 Baptiste Daroussin freebsd_committer

2022-08-26 12:47:05 UTC

Sorry I messed up with another PR, anyway this will be covered by 266049