On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:39:34PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:17 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > > 1. GNU refers to both x86_64-*-* and amd64-*-* > > > Where? The *only* amd64 reference in config.guess is for OpenBSD. > config.sub explicitly changes "amd64" to "x86_64" gcc also refers to it, as noted on their website for various arch support they mention the triplets x86_64-*-* and amd64-*-*. Which would make sense if config.* supports it also for the BSDs. Chris > > The "kernel" being only the Linux kernel using x86_64 and the > > other kernels, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD all using amd64. So that's 3:1 > > in favor of using amd64 for the name. Unless we are going to have > > different names for the arch for the different debian ports? > > > We have that situation already. Er we do? The only examples I see so far are of kfreebsd-i386 and darwin-powerpc which seems to be uniform... Which ones are you speaking of? Chris
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