Re: [PATCH] build: Correctly determine the system type for GNU/Hurd systems.

[Manolis Ragkousis]

Hello everyone,

On 06/19/16 16:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I wonder why this is needed though; normally, when building on
> i586-unknown-gnu*, the next case:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>      case "$host_os" in
>        linux-gnu*)
>         # For backward compatibility, strip the `-gnu' part.
>         guix_system="$machine_name-linux";;
>        *)    # ← THIS CASE
>         # Strip the version number from names such as `gnu0.3',
>         # `darwin10.2.0', etc.
>         guix_system="$machine_name-`echo $host_os | "$SED" 
> -e's/[0-9.]*$//g'`";;
>      esac
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> … should produce “i586-gnu”, no?  What did you observe?  To put it
> differently, what does ./build-aux/config.guess return on a GNU/Hurd
> system?

It produces "i686-gnu0.8" which is problematic and we expect "i586-gnu"
for our binaries to work.

I will push the updated patch to core-updates.

Thank you,
Manolis