On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RC> Why? > > What is "i386" and why does it have a subpackage of "rtems4.7"? > > RC> This name is the name being used for GNU crosstool toolchains for > RC> many years (> a decade). It corresponds to the target > RC> canonicalization tuple internally being used by binutils/gcc/gdb, > RC> and the autotools. > > So? Yes. Target canonicalization tuples are standardized (In particular in binutils, GCC and gdb) and shared between *all* projects using config.guess and config.sub (I.e. all package using the autotools). > We are free to make decisions for ourselves instead of blindly > using someone else's naming convention. Yes, it's our freedom to waste time on re- and over engineering parts others have spend decades on. A gcc cross compiler's components are called <target>-<component> You can even find traces of this in Fedora: e.g. /usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-gcc /usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-c++ I.e. people will be looking for <target>-<tool> > If the name is completely > confusing (as it is to me) then surely we should talk about it before > just stuffing it into the repository. Would packages be called i386-cygwin-gcc or i386-redhat-gcc i586-suse-gcc sparc-sun-solaris2.8-gcc be confusing to you? IMO, they are self-explanatory. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
