[PATCH]: Recognise i586-pc-syllable

[Kristian Van Der Vliet]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 02:59 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> We can extend what add-on ports can do if necessary.  That is better.
> shlib-versions is already covered, that is wholly unnecessary.

Both would be fine with me. I wasn't aware that shlib-versions could be
handled from inside the add-on, and I have no problem with that.

> In fact, it would be better to look for abi-tags in sysdeps dirs too
> and keep add-on patterns out of the main file.

The problem with abi-tags is that each platform has to use a unique tag,
and the tag has implications outside of Glibc, for example GDB. There
has to be some form of central management here to avoid conflicts.

> It looks to me like you could be using a preconfigure file of:
> 
> case "$host_os" in
> syllable*) elf=yes; libc_config_ok=yes ;;
> esac
> 
> and not need any configure.in change.

Yes, it appears you are correct. I admit, I wasn't aware of this
mechanism (nor the shlib-versions add-on handling).

-- 
Vanders
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