On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:39:36AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> writes: > > > I would like to know who defined "x86_64" name in LSB with the > > appropriate reason. Is this "rpm"-driven name? Why did they select > > this name instead of "x86-64"? > > > > Regards, > > -- gotom > > x86_64 is the name used by the gnu tools and - is used as seperator in > host/build triplets. The Linux kernel uses the name x86_64, so uname -m outputs "x86_64". I think that is why the gnu tools use it, the gnu tools also support amd64-*-*, I guess for the BSD's? Chris
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