Succesfull build and install of gcc-3.0.3 on k6-redhat-linux-gnu

[Janis Johnson]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:04:56AM +0100, Gcc k6 testing account wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Your report of the others had the target as i586-pc-linux-gnu and the
> > new one was k6-redhat-linux-gnu; I guess it was different this time
> > because you specified it explicitly to configure.  I'll combine them so
> > they're all together.  Should they be under i586-pc-linux-gnu or
> > k6-redhat-linux-gnu?
> > 
> > Janis
> > 
[snip]
> 
> 1)All the bootstraps are on the same machine. The util versions are 
> the same,only glibc got a minor security update.
> 
> 1)All my bootstraps were done with --host=k6-redhat-linux-gnu and 
> --target=k6-redhat-linux-gnu 
> 
> 2)config.guess gave me in all cases i586-pc-linux-gnu.
> 
> 3)All my automatic testreports on gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults get
> tagged with i586-redhat-linux-gnu by test_summary in the contrib dir.
> 
> 
> So what should be the naming?
> I'm not sure,because I only know a bit about configuring/installing gcc 
> and nothing about the inner workings. 
> 
> BUT : When I do a gcc -dumpspecs I see a line 
>  "  *cpp_cpu_default
>     -D__tune_k6__
>  "
> 
> So I think the gcc I build is defaulting to bulding code optimised to run 
> for a k6. IMHO this means the name for the entry should be 
> k6-redhat-linux-gnu.
> 
> However,I would rather have some comments from people in the know.
> Wasn't Honza some time ago working on specific k6 code? I think he was the 
> one who got k6 bootstrapping again from 3.0.2 on. (Thanx for that Honza!!)
> 
> Anyway,my best guess is k6-redhat-linux-gnu.
> Greetz martijn

I decided to stick with i586-pc-linux-gnu since in general we use the
output of config.guess.

Janis