From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21086 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2006 19:20:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 21009 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2006 19:20:19 -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 19:20:17 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.domain.tld (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68026CD0; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:20:16 -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 29383-03-2; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ussunex01.palmsource.com (unknown [192.168.101.9]) by mx2.palmsource.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EE826CCF; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:20:15 -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 19:20:15 +0000 Received: from svmsnyderlnx by owa.palmsource.com; 25 Sep 2006 12:20:14 -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: <200609251508.00560.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200609241801.43629.vapier@gentoo.org> <200609251359.17234.vapier@gentoo.org> <1159210072.24808.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200609251508.00560.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:20:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1159212014.24808.35.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/msg00172.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 15:07 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 25 September 2006 14:47, Michael Snyder wrote: > > 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? > > common practice ? :) Well... not so common that I've heard of it... > in the uClibc world we use $arch-$vendor-linux-uclibc to keep things clean and > sep from the host glibc toolchain $arch-$vendor-linux-gnu ... when we > proposed adding support for *-linux-uclibc and *-linux-newlib and > *-linux-dietlibc to binutils, the cleaner solution was to simply accept > *-linux-* in configure files That may be sound -- but uClibc is not the world. Who else is doing something similar? > upstream libtool changed their files a while ago to accept 'linux*)' rather > than 'linux-gnu*)' ... so my patch isnt treading into new territory, it's > backporting updates from upstream libtool Cool -- but libtool, while widely used, is not the world either. The world, in this context, is {fsf/gnu} or maybe {fsf/gnu/linux}, of which libtool is certainly a part -- but I'm not sure if we traditionally 'backport' changes from libtool into binutils without question.