Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:07:46 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Canonical systemname for DJGPP
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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> please note that if you say `sh ./config i386-pc-msdosSOMETHING'
> (where SOMETHING is almost any string), `configure' scripts will work

In cases where there is no differnce between MS-DOS and
DJGPP specific things it package dependent. But for instance
in the binutils there is a difference between *-*-msdos
and *-*-msdosdjgpp.

> even without this patch.  For example, the recent DJGPP port of TeX
> uses i386-pc-msdos.djgppv2 when it calls `configure'.

I saw and know it, but in the last time we (DJ, Richard Stallmann and
others) discussed this (especially the dot in the name) and came
to the result to use msdosdjgpp and not msdos.djgpp.

> > That means, that anyone who will make in the
> > future any ports of the GNU packages should use
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I think this is way too much to request, for something that is not
> really a necessity.

I know that many packages do not use the canonical name and
even not config.guess. I said this only for future ports
which need this. For instance gcc will be such a package
and gdb of course.


BTW: I don't know if someone working together with the
gcc maintainer, but if yes he should really remember this
because it is 1. not su much work (I tried it already 
with 2.7.2.1 with only some minor changes) and 2. it would
help very much to be compatible then with the binutils
when making cross compiler (because currently there is
a naming conflict between these two packages).

Robert
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