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Re: Finding canonical names of systems

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
Cc: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:30:55 -0800
Subject: Re: Finding canonical names of systems
References: <cf7bbda90611271925w11cab6b9wbb8c4c3db6c076a5@mail.gmail.com> <5EE8BA4E-DB3F-4871-97C1-0459A496223B@apple.com>

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:03:20PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> [ first, this is the wrong list to ask such question, gcc-help is the  
> right one ]

I disagree in this case.

> On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> >How are you supposed to find the canonical name of a system (of  
> >known type) in CPU-Vendor-OS form in the general case?
> 
> In the general case, you ask someone that has such a machine to run  
> config.guess, or failing that, you ask someone, or failing that, you  
> just invent the obvious string and use it.

But this is a bug for anyone interested in cross-compilation, which is why
gcc is the right list to bring it up.

References:
- Finding canonical names of systems
  - From: Ulf Magnusson
- Re: Finding canonical names of systems
  - From: Mike Stump

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