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Re: target names and glibc versions on linux

From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
To: Alex Hornby <alex at anvil dot com>
Cc: Jim Wilson <wilson at tuliptree dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 25 Jun 2003 21:01:48 -0300
Subject: Re: target names and glibc versions on linux
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
References: <1056465536.25653.50.camel@nero.anvil.co.uk><3EF8A9DC.5090500@tuliptree.org><1056529070.25422.64.camel@nero.anvil.co.uk>

On Jun 25, 2003, Alex Hornby <alex@anvil.com> wrote:

> but config.guess doesn't give me any assistance in distinguishing
> them

And why should it?  I mean, it could name the distro, or the glibc
version, or the kernel version, or whatever, and it would be useless
for 100% of the applications that use autoconf tests properly to
detect the features they actually rely on.  Feature tests is the right
way to do it.  If I were in a bad day, I'd probably even suggest
removing version numbers from sparc-sun-solaris triplets :-D

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References:
- target names and glibc versions on linux
  - From: Alex Hornby
- Re: target names and glibc versions on linux
  - From: Jim Wilson
- Re: target names and glibc versions on linux
  - From: Alex Hornby

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