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Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*
From: |
Po Lu |
Subject: |
Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-* |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:40:41 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> writes:
> At this time, yes. However, the GNU utilities are designed to be
> fairly portable and the NT kernel was designed to support multiple
> ABIs, so a hypothetical port of GNU to run under MS-Windows is within
> the realm of possibility. (In fact, the underlying architecture of NT
> should have all of the primitives needed to support HURD or a closely
> related system.) It is more likely that this would be implemented on
> ReactOS (which aims for ABI compatibility with NT 5.1, is a stable
> target, and is Free) first, but a hypothetical `x86_64-pc-windows-gnu'
> (or perhaps `x86_64-pc-reactos-gnu') config tuple *is* a future
> possibility.
This hypothesizing is not relevant here. x86_64-pc-windows-* represents
MinGW, and should be normalized correspondingly.
> And what would we canonicalize `x86_64-pc-windows-gnu' to, other than
> itself, currently?
x86_64-pc-mingw64, which I mentioned at the outset of this thread.
> It appears that config tuples may be drifting towards a 5-element
> CPU-VENDOR-KERNEL-OS-LIBCABI form, with each of the last three
> elements potentially optional, which makes any real tuple ambiguous,
> except that the valid strings for KERNEL, OS, and LIBCABI are from
> distinct sets.
Configuration tuples don't ``drift'', and they certainly should not
change or duplicate other triplets.
- config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/17
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Zack Weinberg, 2023/08/18
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, John Ericson, 2023/08/18
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/18
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, John Ericson, 2023/08/20
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/20
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2023/08/20
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*,
Po Lu <=
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, John Ericson, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, John Ericson, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2023/08/21
- Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*, Po Lu, 2023/08/21