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Re: PATCH: gcc-3.1/criteria.html
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 07:09:12PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
> >> ] Ben, just to make sure: Does this match (Debian) reality?
> > Nope. We use just plain "sparc-linux" for a target. Doesn't make a
> > difference to me though. It should actually be sparc-unknown-linux-gnu.
>
> I think Debian ought to use the correct GNU configuration names.
> I believe that's what was intended, right?
Debian uses the names that simplify coding of our packaging system. All
of our GNU/Linux architectures use "<cpu>-linux". This is parsed by a
lot of things, and it is a waste of parsing to add in two fields that
never get used (I doubt we will ever see anything other than
*-unknown-*-gnu, so we can drop the two fields that are assumed).
Is there some technical reason that we need this? What makes your
suggestion correct, when what we use has always worked for us?
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