On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:02:10PM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > Nope. Even if it did the kernel wouldn't care. Build gcc on a peecee > sometime and you'll see "i386-unknown-linux-gnu" and it will work as > well as gcc ever does. Have some fun with it - maybe > "mips-fuckmeinthegoatass-linux-gnu" (STR) for your amusement or > "mips-notintel-linux-gnu" to make a statement. It won't affect > anything. Leave off the -gnu, though, and configure will kindly add > it back on, reminding you that it is, in fact, GNU/Linux, dammit. Since the manufacturer part of the name quadruple is a entirely useless just like the -gnu suffix on Linux I usually strip it off. That's why the kernel by default uses mips-linux, mipsel-linux, mips64-linux or mips64el-linux by default and I'd like others to do the same to avoid the unnecessary pleasure of editing makefiles that know about crosscompiler configuration names. Ralf
