[Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:11:59PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00032.html
> 
> I had let that slide; sorry.  I installed the following patch (which
> is not quite the same as what you proposed, but looks more correct to
> me) into gnulib, and it should percolate into coreutils soon.

Thanks. But I didn't intend to change the "netbsd*-gnu" rule. That one
corresponds to the system based on NetBSD's kernel and libc (as opposed to
knetbsd*-gnu which is NetBSD's kernel with Glibc).

Richard said it should also be called "GNU/KNetBSD" and its triplet changed to
knetbsd*-gnunolibc (the triplet, however, was not changed since that would
break things and we'd have to discuss it with the netbsd*-gnu people first)

In any case, the following:

> -       netbsd*-gnu*) os='GNU/NetBSD';;
>         netbsd*)              os='NetBSD';;

Would call it "NetBSD" which is incorrect, so we need to find a better
solution.

-- 
Robert Millan

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