On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, eric pareja wrote: > Which GNU utility provides the configure scripts that you're talking > about? And which utility is guilty of appending -gnu? autoconf?
If you don't specify the options "--host" and "--build" to the standard configure scripts that come with most packages (whether GNU or not). The configure script uses "i[3456]86-pc-linux-gnu" by default. If you use redhat, "i?86-redhat-linux-gnu" is the default. > I don't > see that behavior happening on any of the systems I use. If you examine the output of the "configure" script, you will see that your system probably uses the default values. > Is there anything > stopping you from modifying the source of the culprit from appending -gnu? No. It is just too much bother. Besides, the effect of appending "-gnu" is just cosmetic. The real use of "--host" is to determine the locations and names of the standard development tools. If you specify "--host=i386-admu-linux", the configure script looks for the the C-compiler as "i386-admu-linux-gcc" from the standard locations, and looks for the assembler "/usr/i386-admu-linux/bin/as". The names "i386-admu-linux-gnu-gcc" and "/usr/i386-admu-linux-gnu/bin/as" are not really enforced by "configure", even if it does append "-gnu" to "host". If the standard search fails, the good old names /usr/local/bin/gcc or /usr/bin/gcc are used instead. So RMS really wants people to use the name i386-redhat-linux-gnu-gcc but he will allow i386-redhat-linux-gcc or simply gcc. PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
