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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:53:04 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:21:25PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> So IMO we should ask the FreeBSD and NetBSD people honestly: "Listen, we
> need two different names in order to distinguish the whole system and the
We don't really need that. I've never had (technical/practical) problems
with using "freebsd" triplet for FreeBSD and "kfreebsd-gnu" for GNU/KFreeBSD.
> kernel of your system. What are your preferences?" Robert, do you or
> RMS already know what there preferences are?
Since changing the "freebsd" triplet to "kfreebsd-freebsd" would break
existing software on FreeBSD, I believe you'll find strong opposition if you
want to change it.
> > > And believe me, having ported the first hundreds of software packages to
> > > GNU/K*BSD, I have some idea on what I'm talking about.
>
> Can you please tell from your experience (my experience covers only the
> first 25 packages of GNU/FreeBSD, so I really wish to know): What is the
> approximate percentage of packages which test the $host values
> a) in order to know about some hardware/kernel issues,
Very few. That I can remember right now, only binutils, gcc (gcc itself, not
g++ etc) and some parts of libtool.
> b) in order to know about things tied to libc,
Most of them. They tend to use triplets to define things like _GNU_SOURCE,
dynamic linker stuff, Glibc-specific CFLAGS, etc.
> c) in order to know about things tied to particular userland programs
> or conventions (like the 'make' program's flavour, or the installation
> location of man pages etc)?
A few do that. That I can remeber right now, e2fsprogs uses it to determine
wether the fsck wrapper should be built. And both e2fsprogs and Ncurses to
determine the installation prefix.
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
- [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, (continued)
[Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/28
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Bruno Haible, 2003/10/30
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/30
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Paul Eggert, 2003/10/30
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Bruno Haible, 2003/10/30
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Paul Eggert, 2003/10/30
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago,
Robert Millan <=
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Bruno Haible, 2003/10/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/31
- Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/31
Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/30
Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Paul Eggert, 2003/10/30
Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/30
Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Bruno Haible, 2003/10/30
Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago, Robert Millan, 2003/10/30