+++ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2012-07-20 16:55 -0300]: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Naming > > ====== > > > > Naming issues: ARM are calling the new 64-bit architecture > > AArch64. Other people don't like that and various other names have > > been proposed for use elsewhere. Debian/Ubuntu developers have already > > picked the name "arm64" in dpkg and elsewhere. > > Maybe a patch should be sent to GNU config upstream so that arm64 > becomes known to config.sub and config.guess as an alias for aarch64?
That's not necessary, because dpkg (-architecture) does the necessary conversions between 'debian arch name' and 'GNU arch/triplet names'. So autotools already has aarch64-linux-gnu and that works fine with Debian (in the same way that 'amd64' is 'x86_64-linux-gnu' from a GNU tools POV). The one _good_ reason for using the aarch64 name is avoiding accidental matches with arm* in various bits of configery so leaving that alone probably makes sense despite the silly name. Arm64 everywhere would have been neater but unless someone is volunteering for a massive argument and changing upstream gcc and glibc and autofoo and volunteering to fix up the configery that will break in numerous places it's best left well alone. (I was all for changing it for a while, but have been persuaded, not by ARM, I hasten to add :-) that we have more important things to do with our time than bikeshed about upstream's funny naming, which does at least have the major benefit of being a unique string.) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120721011240.go26...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
