On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:34:44PM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > I don't understand the purpose of the "triplet" names that get generated > for gcc. As I completed LFS on a CentOS host, the names I got are: > > usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-c++ > usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-g++ > usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc > usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.9.2 > usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-ar > usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-nm > usr/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-ranlib > > In the past that "unknown" was "pc". Is this cosmetic, or is there some > remedy that I should apply?
Cosmetic. i?86 is -pc-,- x86_64 is -unknown-. See the recent comments on -dev in the thread 'Adding --target to gcc'. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
