On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, H.J. Lu wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Linux/x86 target is configured as i686-android-linux. Changing it to >> i686-linuxandroid requires changes in many packages. This patch adds >> DEFAULT_LIBC=LIBC_BIONIC and ANDROID_DEFAULT=1 to *-android-*. OK for >> trunk in stage 1? > > I think using the "company" part of the target triplet to mean anything > should be avoided; it's just an arbitrary identifier that users may set to
It means something only for GCC, nothing else. > distinguish multiple compilers for similar targets. We may not be able to > get rid of existing cases that treat it as significant, but can avoid > adding new ones. -linux-android (note the "-", not "-linuxandroid") > matches the standard GNU practice where the last part is -KERNEL-OS (thus, > -linux-gnu for Linux kernel, GNU OS, -linux-android for Linux kernel, > Android OS). > When I configure GCC with i686-linux-android target, don't I get linux as vendor and android OS? Adding another arbitrary string as vendor looks very strange to me. -- H.J.
