Re: [patch ping] change linux-gnu* -> linux* in libtool files

[Michael Snyder <Michael dot Snyder at palmsource dot com>]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 13:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 25 September 2006 13:29, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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.
> 
> this has nothing to do with ideological "Linux" versus "GNU/Linux" ... we went 
> through this before with the fixing of all the configure targets in 
> bfd/gas/ld/gcc/etc...
> 
> linux-gnu implies glibc and glibc is not the only libc you can use out there 
> with linux

Not to say you're wrong, but this is the first I've heard
that linux-gnu implies glibc.  Is there someplace where this
is written?