From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27497 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2006 21:22:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 27478 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2006 21:22:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bender.bawue.de (HELO bender.bawue.de) (193.7.176.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:22:01 +0000 Received: from lagash (88-106-220-212.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [88.106.220.212]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bender.bawue.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA2244BFE; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:21:57 +0200 (MEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GRxKm-0005pn-P1; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:45:48 +0100 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:22:00 -0000 To: Ian Lance Taylor Cc: Mike Frysinger , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch ping] change linux-gnu* -> linux* in libtool files Message-ID: <20060925204548.GA26965@networkno.de> References: <200609241801.43629.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Thiemo Seufer 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/msg00181.txt.bz2 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. By now there are linux-gnu and linux-uclibc, a C library independent check would need to match both. Thiemo