From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29290 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2006 18:48:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 29262 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2006 18:47:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.palmsource.com (HELO mx2.palmsource.com) (12.7.175.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:47:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.domain.tld (Postfix) with ESMTP id B173A26BDC; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.palmsource.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx2.palmsource.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27779-04-35; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ussunex01.palmsource.com (unknown [192.168.101.9]) by mx2.palmsource.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C043026BDA; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 192.168.92.59 ([192.168.92.59]) by ussunex01.palmsource.com ([192.168.101.9]) via Exchange Front-End Server owa.palmsource.com ([10.0.20.17]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:47:53 +0000 Received: from svmsnyderlnx by owa.palmsource.com; 25 Sep 2006 11:47:52 -0700 Subject: Re: [patch ping] change linux-gnu* -> linux* in libtool files From: Michael Snyder To: Mike Frysinger Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <200609251359.17234.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200609241801.43629.vapier@gentoo.org> <200609251359.17234.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:48:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1159210072.24808.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00169.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 13:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 25 September 2006 13:29, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Mike Frysinger writes: > > > ok to commit to sourceware repo ? > > > > > > upstream libtool changed libtool.m4 a while back to look for 'linux*)' > > > instead of 'linux-gnu*)' ... ive also tweaked the ltconfig accordingly > > > > Um, why? The binutils and gdb are owned by and maintained on behalf > > of the FSF. A few years ago the FSF requested that we go through and > > change linux* to linux-gnu*, in accordance with the their preferred > > name of GNU/Linux. That's not to say that your patch is automatically > > rejected, but it certainly needs some motivation. > > this has nothing to do with ideological "Linux" versus "GNU/Linux" ... we went > through this before with the fixing of all the configure targets in > bfd/gas/ld/gcc/etc... > > linux-gnu implies glibc and glibc is not the only libc you can use out there > with linux Not to say you're wrong, but this is the first I've heard that linux-gnu implies glibc. Is there someplace where this is written?