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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-08-31 02:50:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-08-31 02:50:57 +0200 |
| commit | 75461902658117454c94d0f4847f73af1d4f97a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 28fefbc491363709ba555f79c6891292588552b8 /hurd/porting | |
| parent | d51486bfb7e8367078774906d4a71723908d544f (diff) | |
explain that quadruples are actually triples
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn b/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn index e3da1e42..efc8982a 100644 --- a/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn +++ b/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn @@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ built will generate code for. When using GNU autotools to configure a package config.guess and config.sub from autotools-dev are used to find out the build machine identity: CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-OPERATING_SYSTEM. For GNU/Hurd config.guess gives 'i686-unknown-gnu0.3'. Sometimes a quadruple is used -adding KERNEL, e.g. for Linux on an amd64: 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'. config.sub is used to +adding KERNEL, e.g. for Linux on an amd64: 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'. This +is however actually a triple, it just happens that the operating system part +unfortunately contains a '-'. config.sub is used to canonicalize on these triplets, e.g. config.sub i686-gnu gives 'i686-pc-gnu'. On Debian systems the build Makefile is debian/rules and some Debian packages will set $host to |