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Re: What to do about macppc-unknown-netbsd...
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at allegronetworks dot com>
- Subject: Re: What to do about macppc-unknown-netbsd...
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:30:07 -0500
- cc: "GCC Developers (E-mail)" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "'autoconf at gcc dot org'" <autoconf at gcc dot org>
>>>>> Bruce Korb writes:
Bruce> I need to get GCC 2.95.2 working on this platform.
Bruce> However, it looks like the GCC ports for power pc tend
Bruce> to use "powerpc-..." in their triplet and `uname -m`
Bruce> returns "macppc". So, what is the best solution?
Bruce> Teach GCC (and other apps) that "macppc" == "powerpc",
Bruce> or have config.guess emit "powerpc-apple" instead of
Bruce> "macppc-unknown"? Ick. :-)
I would suggest teaching config.sub to canonicalize macppc-* as
powerpc-*. I do not think it is appropriate or worth converting the
*-unknown-* to *-apple-*.
David