Re: failure of cross-compilation detection on BlueGene/L

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Steven G. Johnson wrote on Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 06:40:26PM CEST:
>>> That's why I suggested something like powerpc64-ibm-bluegene, or  
>>> possibly powerpc64-ibm-bluegene-{version} if a version can be 
>>> detected and is useful.
>>
>> Whoops, that should be powerpc, not powerpc64; all of the BlueGene  
>> machines apparently run 32-bit PowerPC 4xx processors.
>
> Hmm, and the operating system should probably be "cnk" (for CNK =  
> Compute Node Kernel, the term IBM uses to refer to the operating system  
> on the BlueGene compute nodes), rather than "bluegene" (the name of the  
> machine), to follow the usual naming conventions.
>
> I'll send a patch to address@hidden as you suggested.

Thanks for dealing with this!
Ralf