Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Eager
Ulf Magnusson wrote: On 11/29/06, Michael Eager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ulf Magnusson wrote: > While searching for an answer, I noticed that lots of people seem > to have had problems with cross-compilation that to me look more > like problems in the documentation, which I find a bit sad. R

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-29 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Ulf Magnusson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd be happy to contribute some documentation on this. I just hope I > have a firm enough grip on the issue. Where should I send drafts for > review? Is there some other resource I should be aware of besides > http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html? Thank

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-29 Thread Ulf Magnusson
On 11/29/06, Michael Eager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ulf Magnusson wrote: > While searching for an answer, I noticed that lots of people seem > to have had problems with cross-compilation that to me look more > like problems in the documentation, which I find a bit sad. Rather than repeatedly

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Eager
Ulf Magnusson wrote: While searching for an answer, I noticed that lots of people seem to have had problems with cross-compilation that to me look more like problems in the documentation, which I find a bit sad. Rather than repeatedly complain, the most constructive contribution would be to co

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-29 Thread Ulf Magnusson
On 11/29/06, Michael Eager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ulf Magnusson wrote: > How are you supposed to find the canonical name of a system (of known > type) in CPU-Vendor-OS form in the general case? If you have access to > a system of that particular type, you can run config.guess to find > out, b

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Eager
Ulf Magnusson wrote: How are you supposed to find the canonical name of a system (of known type) in CPU-Vendor-OS form in the general case? If you have access to a system of that particular type, you can run config.guess to find out, but you might not have, and that approach won't work for many s

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-28 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:03:20PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote: > [ first, this is the wrong list to ask such question, gcc-help is the > right one ] I disagree in this case. > On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > >How are you supposed to find the canonical name of a system (of > >

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-28 Thread Ulf Magnusson
On 11/28/06, Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ first, this is the wrong list to ask such question, gcc-help is the right one ] On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote: > How are you supposed to find the canonical name of a system (of > known type) in CPU-Vendor-OS form in the gene

Re: Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-27 Thread Mike Stump
[ first, this is the wrong list to ask such question, gcc-help is the right one ] On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote: How are you supposed to find the canonical name of a system (of known type) in CPU-Vendor-OS form in the general case? In the general case, you ask someone tha

Finding canonical names of systems

2006-11-27 Thread Ulf Magnusson
How are you supposed to find the canonical name of a system (of known type) in CPU-Vendor-OS form in the general case? If you have access to a system of that particular type, you can run config.guess to find out, but you might not have, and that approach won't work for many systems anyway. The can