"Rupert Wood" <me@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > David A. Braun wrote: > > > Well! That's pretty extreme! Rejecting MIME content type of > > Text/html! A little paranoid are we? > > I don't think it's paranoia - you'll find a lot of free software mailing > lists object to HTML mail. It's probably historic (lots of free MUAs support > it fine now) or bandwith or something, or simply some people prefer plain > text mail anyway. (It gets a mention in the list policies: > http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html). If you're still having problems, there's a > smallish mailing list FAQ here: > > http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html > > including the anti-spam policies. (IIRC sources.redhat.com is the same > machine as gcc.gnu.org.) > > > At several points in my scan of the GCC installation documentation > > there are references to target specs such as "i386-redhat-linux" or > > "alpha*-*-*". Looking at the configure script for several packages > > there seems to be a standard syntax for this string. Is this syntax > > documented anywhere? > > I've never seen any documentation but the canonical source is the GNU > 'config' package: config.guess and config.sub. I can't find a homepage for > it in the FSF software directory and there's no documentation in the config > CVS beyond comments in the scripts. I've always called it a 'target triple', > but the format can now be four groups: (from config.sub) > > # The goal of this file is to map all the various variations of a > # given machine specification into a single specification in the > # form: > # CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-OPERATING_SYSTEM > # or in some cases, the newer four-part form: > # CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-KERNEL-OPERATING_SYSTEM > # It is wrong to echo any other type of specification. Doesn't that imply i386-redhat-linux is either wrong, or implies redhat is the manufacturer? Should it be i386-pc-linux-redhat ?
