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



Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org> writes:

> Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:

> > > -Package: gcc-i386-gnu
> > > -Package: gcc-m68k-linux

> > These two names suggest that some people don't know about naming
> > consistency.

> gcc-i386-gnu is a linux->hurd cross compiler afaik - and the gnu
> machine-arch name for hurd is i386-gnu, just like m68k-linux. So it is
> consistent, in a manner of speaking. I agree it is a little confusing at
> first sight.

More than a little confusing, considering that configure, when given
"i386-linux" on the command line, claims it is configuring for
"i386-unknown-linux-gnu".


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu


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