What should the kfreebsd-i386 triplet be?

Brian M. Carlson sandals at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx
Fri Nov 11 17:23:20 UTC 2005


On Friday 11 November 2005 11:23, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:56:38AM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
> > Interestingly enough:
> >
> > bmc at stonewall:~$ /usr/share/misc/config.sub i686-kfreebsd5.4-gnu
> > i686-pc-kfreebsd5.4-gnu
>
> rmh at aragorn:~$ /usr/share/misc/config.sub powerpc-kfreebsd5.4-gnu
> powerpc-unknown-kfreebsd5.4-gnu

Well, even my laptop (Linux-based, since kFreeBSD doesn't yet run there) gives 
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu with config.guess, so that doesn't really surprise 
me.

> If it really bothers you, I'd suggest fixing config.sub to treat *-*-* the
> same way as *-unknown-* when normalising triplets.  Then `config.sub
> i686-unknown-kfreebsd-gnu` would return i686-pc-kfreebsd-gnu.

It doesn't; I just was wondering if it might break something.  Since it 
doesn't appear to do so, I'll just ignore it.

Thank you.
-- 
Brian M. Carlson <sandals at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Running on GNU/kFreeBSD
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