Thank you for the reply - it also looks like dashes and underscores may also be option to retain the name. We'll see what shakes out. On May 8, 2021, 12:45 PM -0400, Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote: > On Sat, 2021-05-08 at 12:23 -0400, ylluminate via Gcc-help wrote: > > Hi folks, we have a bit of a strange issue that needs to be addressed. > > It appears that Stratus Virtual Operating System ( > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratus_VOS) is causing a clash for us > > with GCC 11. Our operating system is named "vOS" (V Operating System; > > written in the V language and the vos (fox in dutch) is our > > mascot). See: https://github.com/vlang/vos > > > > We have temporarily renamed our effort to "Vix" so as to be able to > > progress with GCC 11 and this peculiar reservation issue, but it would > > be very helpful and appreciated if Stratus could be properly termed as > > SVOS or "stratus" instead of simply their latter postfix nomenclature > > of "vos". > > > > Would it be possible for you to make this change? Or would this cause > > too many problems? If this is "impossible," could you recommend > > another option vs a complete rename / rebrand? > > The related code (config.guess and config.sub) is technically not a part > of GCC, bug a separate project hosted at > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=tree. > > Stratus VOS was introduced into config.guess since 2001, so many > existing code may depends on this. > > Instead, you can contact config.guess maintainers and ask them to > reserve a name (like "vix") for you. > -- > Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University >
