Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Mark Eichin writes ("Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"): > I've missed something here. Why are we setting i486 instead of i386 > for *anything*? I can see an advantage to having a dpkg command that > prints "i386-debian-linux-gnu" instead of having to cobble it toget

Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"): > You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > > Should I provide a command to do this automatically ? > > > > dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture perhaps. > > Sure, why not. It would result in more consistency,

Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Juergen Menden writes to me in private email: ... > well, unfortunately some packages (like ldso) need i386-linux and > wouldn't like to match i486-linux. better might be ld.so is not a GNU package, is it ? It probably uses our own canonical architecture strings, which include i386 for intel, and

Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"): > ... > > The GNU configure scripts usually match on i[3456]86-*-*) for > > architecture support, so that's not a problem. > > > > I usually do something like: &

Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"): ... > The GNU configure scripts usually match on i[3456]86-*-*) for > architecture support, so that's not a problem. > > I usually do something like: > > a = $(shell dpkg --print-architecture) &g

Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
> Erick Branderhorst writes ("$(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"): >> Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure >> and $(ARCH)-debian-linux? >> >> If so can it specified in the guidelines. >> If not what should we use? > > $(

Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Erick Branderhorst writes ("$(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"): > Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure > and $(ARCH)-debian-linux? > > If so can it specified in the guidelines. > If not what should we use? $(ARCH)-debian-linux, but $(AR

Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-14 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure > and $(ARCH)-debian-linux? > > If so can it specified in the guidelines. > If not what should we use? In the transition to ELF phase, our gcc package used i486-debian-linux, which then caused some problem

$(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu

1996-08-14 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Hi, Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure and $(ARCH)-debian-linux? If so can it specified in the guidelines. If not what should we use? Erick