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Re: Autoconf build targets



On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:53:50AM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> matthew green wrote:
> 
> > i like i386-unknown-netbsd-gnu or i386-unknown-netbsd-debian. i'd ask
> > the config.guess maintainers what _they_ feel about this..
>
> config.guess maintainers will most likely want -gnu. I'd rather have
> -debian, because I consider my OS to be Debian, not GNU. But I'll
> probably go along with it rather than fight over it with the config.guess
> maintainers. Then 3 months later, I'll probably get into a vicious
> flame-war with FreeBSD people over it.

Except, as noted before, it's not GNU. It's Debian-specific, not even just
GNU specific (such as, say, a glibc patch might be).

i386-unknown-netbsd-gnu-debian (how many fields can we abuse, anyway? Is
this just the proper inverse of Debian GNU/NetBSD?)

> Politics. :(

Indeed.
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