Re: Packages difference in different slink arches (was Re: slinkcd v0.95 m68k & Alpha organization)
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?
> gcc-m68k-linux: Linux <non-m68k arch> host, Linux m68k (m68k-linux)
> target cross-compiler.
ditto.
Paul Slootman
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