[MT patch]: lowercase architecture names
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Tue Dec 27 17:47:00 GMT 2005
Hi Nathan,
>> Is this really of any benefit ? Is there some intention to have
>> uppercase variants of the name mean something different ?
>
> No, there's no intention for upper case to mean something different.
> The thing is, uppercase does not work -- the new multilib machinery
> expects the architectures to be lower case. The existing port also only
> worked with exclusively upper case or lower case rather than the mixed
> case which strcasecmp will accept. Being stricter is an attempt to head
> off confusing errors.
In which case the patch is approved, please apply it.
Cheers
Nick
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