Hello, 2010/7/10, Martin Guy <[email protected]>: > Sure. So my question was "what are the technical impacts of the string > chosen as an arch name?" -or- "What would make it 'wrong'"?
AFAICS, there are no technical impacts. If someone knows it better, please expand. > Sorry, I didn't mean that literal string, I meant changes to build > scripts where the architecture name is fished out and matched against > a pattern beginning with "arm", for example in shell script case > statements or in Makefiles using that awful "findstring" syntax. Like toolchain packages, those need patching. It might be wise to add arm* instead "arm armel armeb" in some cases, where it fits. > Even once the bootstrapping is done, adding a new architecture to > Debian is a lot of work. I know, but what should we do? Step back and use another distro for hardfloating point? I think we are more than enough "capable" people interested to bring this port to Debian. BTW, thanks for the hints. -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
