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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> I would like if I could say `configure i386-linux', rather than
> `configure i386-debian-linux'. Here's why (one paragraph at top of
> page):
>
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch5.html>
> .1 Architecture specification strings
>
> If a program needs to specify an architecture specification string
> in some place, the following format has to be used:
>
> <arch>-<os>
That idea seems broken to me. Configure machine types always have been
been triples.
> Note, that we don't want to use `<arch>-debian-linux' to apply to
> the rule `architecture-vendor-os' since this would make our
> programs incompatible to other Linux distributions.
I would even prefer that they used <arch>-debian-linux since that is a
good indication of the distribution used to compile it. Yet another
data point to go by.
I am not sure why that string would make them incompatible but even if
that is so, it doesn't help much as Redhat uses i686-redhat-linux
Jan
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