Martin Guy wrote: > Nokia did this: > http://cluster.aleph1.co.uk/~martin/packages/dpkg.txt > > It's a bit gross having to add "case *-gnueabi)" here and there but > that is the correct four-part GNU/autotools configuration name. It may > be that making it -linux-gnu the same as the old one could have > repercussions elsewhere, I dunno. I just did things the same way as > you so if it does I wouldn't have noticed either. Not using the official name is kinda worrying, if you ask me. Maybe we should try rebuilding the whole archive with linux-gnueabi and see how many packages break. (I'm assuming that would take only a couple weeks for most of it, based on current rates.) However, some of the examples Lennart showed me of things that break with linux-gnueabi can cause more subtle breakage than a FTBFS, like misplaced paths. > Apart from configuration, -gnueabi also impacts on the stem of > cross-compiler names, in case anyone cares to be able to distinguish > old-ABI from EABI crosscompilers and libraries. Well, that's a valid point. Guillem's dpkg patch does add a DEB_HOST_ARCH_ABI=gnueabi, which could be used for cross-packages, but would be a special case for armel. Of course in the long run I hope we don't need cross-build environments, old-abi arm should be obsolete.. -- see shy jo
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