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

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:32:20PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 
>    The solution might involve extending the quadruples
>         CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-KERNEL-OPERATING_SYSTEM
>    to quintuples
>         CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-KERNEL-LIBCTYPE-OPERATING_SYSTEM

There's no real need to change that, since programs usualy (see my previous
mail) check "netbsd*" for NetBSD libc. Then both "netbsd-gnu" and "netbsd"
(which have NetBSD libc) match it.

>    Or it might go along the lines for Linux/libc5, where the libc type
>    or linker type was appended at the end. (Remember *-*-linux[-gnu]libc1 and
>    *-*-linux[-gnu]oldld?)

That makes more sense. IIRC, RMS suggested the "-gnunolibc" suffix to indicate
the system uses a non-GNU libc.

However, I only work on Glibc-based systems, so this is not my problem. If
you want to change anything in the "netbsd-gnu" triplet, discuss it with
their developers at address@hidden

-- 
Robert Millan

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