[PATCH] PowerPC64 port part 1 of 7

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Tue Aug 20 15:23:00 GMT 2002


> From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:10:49 -0400 (EDT)

> > As for the exact spelling, I discussed this with Geoff long ago and thought
> > I had agreement to the shorter ppc32/ppc64 for the subdirectores. PPC is
> > widely recognized as the abbreviation for PowerPC (TM). Also there was
> > precedent in the source tree of the Linux kernel which uses ppc and ppc64.
> 
> Those are not what matter.  In libc we have, and always will, used the
> canonical GNU cpu names, and canonical means what config.sub produces.
> This is not for any individual port maintainer to decide.  End of story.

I don't remember what I said before, but Roland is right, the
directory names should match the configure input.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>



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