target names and glibc versions on linux

[Ben Elliston]

"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> > A reasonable point.  I am not convinced that adding the glibc version 
> > number completely solves it, because I think there will be other 
> > problems.  It is probably better than nothing though.

> I would use
> ./configure i686-glibc2_2-linux

This is abusing the triplet semantics, in which the central field is
the hardware vendor.

Ben