Re: [PATCH] Add ia64-linux and alphaev6-linux baseline_symbols.txt

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>]

> > a) it calls sort without explicitely saying what locale it wants to be
> >    sorted in, i686-pc-linux-gnu files have been apparently sorted with
> >    LC_ALL=en_US or other locale with identical collation.
> >    I've followed this, but maybe it would be better to use C locale,
> >    ie. s/sort/LC_ALL=C sort/ and resort the files.
> 
> Might be useful, yes. (Do we really need to sort the lists at all, given
> that we're storing them in maps?)

We should probably either sort inside abi-check, and use the "C" locale,
or do as Jakub suggests.

> > b) maybe make abi-check should be more liberate about platform tripples,
> >    e.g. i386-pc-linux-gnu ought to be always identical to
> >    i686-pc-linux-gnu which should be identical i386-redhat-linux or
> >    i586-suse-linux or whatever. Similarly it shouldn't matter if the
> >    build is alphaev67 or alphaev5 or alpha, etc.
> >    But it matters if the build is sparc64- vs. sparc-...
> 
> Absolutely; this was brought up before, and some renaming is in order.
> (I plan to do this all at once, and soonish.)

Yeah. 

I think you are ok to check in Jakub. The renaming of the config/abi
directories can happen afterwards.

Thanks!

-benjamin