What to do about macppc-unknown-netbsd...

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Tue Jan 30 11:30:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> 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


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