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Re: Packages difference in different slink arches (was Re: slinkcd v0.95 m68k & Alpha organization)



On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Paul Slootman wrote:

> On Tue 29 Dec 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
> > At 15:16 +0100 1998-12-29, Paul Slootman wrote:
> 
> > >> -Package: gcc-i386-gnu
> > >> -Package: gcc-m68k-linux
> > >
> > >These two names suggest that some people don't know about naming
> > >consistency.
> > 
> > gcc-i386-gnu: Linux host, HURD (i386-gnu) target cross-compiler.
> 
> Hmm, I would have expected this then to be called gcc-i386-hurd, given
> the way RMS insists on referring to linux as gnu/linux. Anyway, I can't
> find any reference to the linux host in the name either. So how am I to
> infer from the name that this should run on a linux host?

You infer from the fact that it is a debian package, with
appropriate architecture fields, that it runs on a Linux host!

> 
> > gcc-m68k-linux: Linux <non-m68k arch> host, Linux m68k (m68k-linux) 
> > target cross-compiler.
> 
> ditto.

I don't understand your confusion.  This clearly runs on anything except
m68k, and compiles for m68k..

Jules

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