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Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago |
Date: |
28 Oct 2003 12:44:12 -0800 |
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Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00032.html
>
> Thanks. But I didn't intend to change the "netbsd*-gnu" rule. That one
> corresponds to the system based on NetBSD's kernel and libc (as opposed to
> knetbsd*-gnu which is NetBSD's kernel with Glibc).
OK, but then wy did the above-referenced patch get rid of the
freebsd*-gnu* rule? That is, why is FreeBSD different from NetBSD in
this area?
config.guess doesn't do anything special for NetBSD. That is,
config.guess's FreeBSD rule prepends "k" when it appends "-gnu", but
its NetBSD rule doesn't do that. Why are the two operating systems
treated differently here? And if config.guess's NetBSD rule doesn't
prepend "k", why does the patch add a rule for knetbsd*-gnu?
> In any case, the following:
>
> > - netbsd*-gnu*) os='GNU/NetBSD';;
> > netbsd*) os='NetBSD';;
>
> Would call it "NetBSD" which is incorrect, so we need to find a better
> solution.
Sorry, I'm lost. This is all getting pretty complicated. Can you
explain what's going on here, from first principles? I'd like an
explanation that I could put into a comment in host-os.m4.
- [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/27
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Paul Eggert, 2003/10/27
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/28
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/28
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Paul Eggert, 2003/10/30
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/30
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Paul Eggert, 2003/10/30
- Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/30
Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/28