On Tuesday, 05.05.2015 at 11:19, Antti Kantee wrote:
> Do we want to keep the name "app-tools"?  AFAIR, it was coined (by
> Ian?) before we'd really settled in on other terminology.  Is simply
> rumprun-tools better?

I have no opinion. It's more of an "internal" name and seems as good as
any.

> I'm a bit unhappy with "baremetal".  It's long and not very
> descriptive.  At least we'll get rid of the extra "bmk" term, which
> is good, but a better term for "baremetal" would be nice to invent.

How about just "metal" ?

> >Where <kernel+userland> is currently "netbsd", i.e. the existing "native"
> >value is re-used for this field.
> 
> Should that be "netbsdelf" for i386 (and other NetBSD targets which
> originally used a.out)?

Yes.

> >I'd like to get the renaming done ASAP, so if anyone has objections to
> >the proposed scheme please speak up now! Final call :-)
> 
> How many real programs have you tested the scheme with?

I've tested incomplete, hand-made wrappers using this scheme with our
"configure" test and AFAIR also PHP but that was some time ago. I will do a
more thorough test and try and find some software that runs native
binaries during the build before committing anything.

I will also add in functionality to generate "Toolchain" files for CMake
and test with MySQL. These should make software using CMake also just work
(assuming cross-compilation support in the build system).

Martin

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