Re: [configure: feature request] Support configuration like `i386-linux'.
karlheg(a)inetarena.com (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