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Re: [PATCH] PowerPC64 port part 1 of 7
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- To: roland at frob dot com
- Cc: sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com, aj at suse dot de, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:22:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC64 port part 1 of 7
- References: <20020820221049.E36D71BA1E@perdition.linnaean.org>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:10:49 -0400 (EDT)
> > As for the exact spelling, I discussed this with Geoff long ago and thought
> > I had agreement to the shorter ppc32/ppc64 for the subdirectores. PPC is
> > widely recognized as the abbreviation for PowerPC (TM). Also there was
> > precedent in the source tree of the Linux kernel which uses ppc and ppc64.
>
> Those are not what matter. In libc we have, and always will, used the
> canonical GNU cpu names, and canonical means what config.sub produces.
> This is not for any individual port maintainer to decide. End of story.
I don't remember what I said before, but Roland is right, the
directory names should match the configure input.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>