At Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:59:27 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Samuel Thibault wrote on Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:10:43AM CET: > > Ralf Wildenhues, le Tue 16 Jan 2007 09:18:18 +0100, a écrit : > > > > > > What would gnu* be good for? > > > > For hurd-i386. > > What's the complete host string (or possible strings) for Hurd? > I'm asking because I fear gnu* may be too permissive.
The glob gnu* is the official pattern to match the GNU Hurd system in the system component of a GNU triple component host identifier. GNU/Linux systems have "linux-gnu". No other system has gnu in its system component name as far as I know, certainly not at the beginning. As the names are created by the script config.guess which is under control of the GNU project, this is not going to change accidentially. It has been this way ever since. > Also I would like to see a complete port of Libtool to Hurd once > we start down this road; i.e., one that passes as much of the CVS > HEAD Libtool testsuite as possible. The CVS testsuite can be run > in the cross compilation case, see README; if you (or somebody else) > is interested in doing the port, I'd be happy to assist; please > send verbose test failure output to the bug-libtool list. I am not sure what part of libtool requires porting. When I was actively porting, sometimes bugs crept into libtool, but the libtool support for the GNU Hurd was always complete as far as I know. Today's porter will be able to say more. Thanks, Marcus
