On 2020-04-16 18:35 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 04:15:00PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > It does seem strange to install the 'amd64' distro on my Intel Core > > boxes. As I was aware of the history behind the name it made sense. > > x86_64 is a bit more difficult to type but seems less ambiguous. Oh > > well. > > Too bad it has an underscore which isn't permitted in architecture names > in debian since it is the field separator in the package filename. :) We can deal with that. gcc and pkgconfig already have to when building cross-tools which have triplets in the name: pkg-config-x86-64-linux-gnu gcc-x86-64-linux-gnu binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu A simple substitution suffices. It does add another little bit of tiresome complication to the already horrible complicated rules files for gcc. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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