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Re: PATCH: miscellaneous nits in NetBSD configuration
- To: richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com
- Subject: Re: PATCH: miscellaneous nits in NetBSD configuration
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:01:45 -0600
- cc: Todd Vierling <tv at pobox dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com, rearnsha at sun52 dot arm dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199807311013.LAA06118@sun52.NIS.cambridge>you write:
> > Tue Jul 28 19:21:52 EDT 1998 Todd Vierling <tv@netbsd.org>
> >
> > * configure.in: ...
> > Accept arm32 as arm, ...
>
>
> I think this is wrong. "arm32" is not a gnu canonical name for an ARM cpu
> target, it is the NetBSD name for the operating system port. This should
> be fixed up in config.guess not in configure.in (and the toplevel
> config.guess already does this). If we start allowing this, then every
> gnu package will have to be modified.
The change itself actually changed arm-*-netbsd* to arm*-*-netbsd*
in configure.in which is considered OK.
This may not remove the need/desire to change config.guess, which is
a separate issue.
jeff