Re: Packages difference in different slink arches (was Re: slinkcd v0.95 m68k & Alpha organization)
On 31 Dec 1998, Martin Mitchell wrote:
> Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
>
> > > 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.
>
> The Debian hurd project didn't exist when I created gcc-m68k-linux, can
> you suggest a better name, without resorting to ridiculous length such as
> gcc-i386-linux-to-m68k-linux ?
No need, I don't think.
Your gcc-m68-linux platform should, in theory at least, be compilable on
i386-hurd, or for that matter sparc-linux or sparc-hurd.
Jules
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