From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26826 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2006 17:59:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 26753 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2006 17:59:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:59:21 +0000 Received: from home.wh0rd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D4B645BD for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 247 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2006 13:58:33 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2006 13:58:33 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger To: Ian Lance Taylor Subject: Re: [patch ping] change linux-gnu* -> linux* in libtool files Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:59:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200609241801.43629.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2885797.I63zoqIhZQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200609251359.17234.vapier@gentoo.org> 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/msg00167.txt.bz2 --nextPart2885797.I63zoqIhZQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 1165 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 w= ent=20 through this before with the fixing of all the configure targets in=20 bfd/gas/ld/gcc/etc... linux-gnu implies glibc and glibc is not the only libc you can use out ther= e=20 with linux what i've posted allows targets such as foo-linux-uclibc be detected as=20 supporting shared libraries ... and down the line when dietlibc/etc... are= =20 more featureful, they get will benefit automatically when they use=20 foo-linux-dietlibc names -mike --nextPart2885797.I63zoqIhZQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 827 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARRgY9EFjO5/oN/WBAQJddxAAvrtBb9NMMswiaYMUyrM7SkjSQOOx5TPY N9nsFNtd7qoZl1x6miPpYUFoY5onvuCaYN++NBn/JCjLb3wgnd9DZtL9sgufPZlM jdbtAv2HWg52b7UzK5k+2HyyrJtwdrg6fWqVmflzXShZCFeRMv1isyHWAxClFdlW ZfGSHtrziJ8VntbOGdqlUjwV94S8TAPNmMHMZSnER1+9rsDGVX1JpL1CVDC/f/Gl KnGzyeM2CxOQdZHK6aUljtunu2duHxf+9Pqwo5+KTeu5vG1OD9MRgCi80SKEnWJg LHM/+vXdNghjBgRukUmE6G7CyPa64LADAV0EeTEGWHorJOXtj0z6TRTgxBAE0C0m P6mJQI0IdfPavpBUwB99LTJZbrQeVUIQv/4NbO1bgBb0tqmUwnu1u8eCwb6ystMD dfTPcHNHrRf62pfhobxPOGtw1f9tYVEVoP28kiI5hKwFprC8RvwNotgaiDmkAJu3 sv0D6f7gEXwSfDzGVGJITtw5qvTujFxt5x0Aqdrmh6MlEVB/yl+/+JwuJy1yVAtf 3OVcJiEglHN/yZ53uZEVVMmmxT150IofnGf/IuGnPUzTaUm9tME6Zw80iJu+SNvn vJkSYjIV6CXQlZzOnFRtUddY5yiVIaevHgcECNtNp5vOffgmeuwzBBrzI8dqEnRt KR44c0ZIhK4= =Pn2U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2885797.I63zoqIhZQ--