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Re: [patch ping] change linux-gnu* -> linux* in libtool files
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 15:07 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 25 September 2006 14:47, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > 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?
>
> common practice ? :)
Well... not so common that I've heard of it...
> in the uClibc world we use $arch-$vendor-linux-uclibc to keep things clean and
> sep from the host glibc toolchain $arch-$vendor-linux-gnu ... when we
> proposed adding support for *-linux-uclibc and *-linux-newlib and
> *-linux-dietlibc to binutils, the cleaner solution was to simply accept
> *-linux-* in configure files
That may be sound -- but uClibc is not the world. Who else is doing
something similar?
> upstream libtool changed their files a while ago to accept 'linux*)' rather
> than 'linux-gnu*)' ... so my patch isnt treading into new territory, it's
> backporting updates from upstream libtool
Cool -- but libtool, while widely used, is not the world either.
The world, in this context, is {fsf/gnu} or maybe {fsf/gnu/linux},
of which libtool is certainly a part -- but I'm not sure if we
traditionally 'backport' changes from libtool into binutils without
question.