[PATCH] Improve binutils testsuite coverage for GNU/Hurd (and kFreeBSD?)

Robert Millan rmh@debian.org
Thu Oct 28 13:40:00 GMT 2010


2010/10/28, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>:
>I generally simply windened these to include
> *-*-gnu*, too.
>
> As the triplet *-*-gnu* not only matches GNU/Hurd systems, but also
> *-*-linux-gnu* and *-*-kfreebsd-gnu* we have to be a bit careful.

That's what $host_os is for (as opposed to $host).

In general, most cases where $host is used are gratuitous and just
looking for trouble.

-- 
Robert Millan



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