In porting stuff, I've found several cases where modifying the source to build on Debian potentially breaks it on plain NetBSD. After talking to Nathan about this, we came up with a couple of ideas:
1) Modify the kernel build so uname -v includes "Debian" - this is a pretty trivial change. It does present problems if people build kernels on their own - one option would be to make sure that the kernel build system ensures that this is set. 2) config.guess currently produces i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5. Under Linux, this is i386-pc-linux-gnu. Adding i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5-gnu (or possibly even just i386-unknown-netbsd-gnu), determined by the different uname output, would allow for Debian-specific alterations to be made which could be included upstream without breaking anything else. Does anyone have any comments? (Oh, and kudos to the NetBSD guys for producing a kernel which seems happy to build with gcc 3.04 :) ) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
