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Re: config.guess and Linux/GNU
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: config.guess and Linux/GNU
- From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:54:35 +0200
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000607135910G.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
> I have no personal opinion, but my understanding was the `linux-gnu'
> was the FSF way of spelling the system name, just as GNU/Linux is the
> way the FSF names the system(s) that some folks call just plain Linux.
>
> Was this an intentional change?
I don't know whether the change was intentional, but I believe your
understanding is incorrect. At some point, the target triplet was
changed to optionally be a target quadruple, with the fourth part
being the "environment". This was only used on Linux, where "gnu"
really indicated presence of the GNU system, in particular of the GNU
C library.
At the time the feature was introduced, the rationale was that there
could be also a sparc-sun-solaris-gnu (etc), which is a Sun Solaris
kernel with a GNU system on top of it.
Regards,
Martin