uclibc patches

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Tue Mar 22 02:10:00 GMT 2005


On Monday 21 March 2005 04:49 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 07:49:59PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >On Sunday 20 March 2005 07:19 am, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >> > Would patches to add support for tuple
> >> > arch-*-linux-uclibc*
> >> > be acceptable?
> >>
> >> Yes - provided that the copyright holder for the patches has a binutils
> >> FSF copyright assignment in place, or if the patches are small enough
> >> and simple enough to qualify as obvious.
> >
> >basically every place you see '-linux-gnu*', add a similar
> > '-linux-uclibc*' match
>
> Perhaps it is politically incorrect to suggest this, but wouldn't it
> make sense to just allow -linux-* rather than add a bunch of
> linux-uclibc's everywhere?

it doesnt matter to me which is used so long as 'it works' :)

although i dont use dietlibc, i think this kind of change would also benefit 
them (iirc, they use -linux-dietlibc in their tuples) ... anyone know if 
klibc does something like this too ?
-mike



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