Justin Cormack writes ("Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] rumpuser-xen: Provide
rumpuserxen-app-* helpers"):
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > This is an RFC because (a) I thought I should get consent to the
> > general approach before pushing and (b) I'd like comments on names,
> > etc. There are three patches here, of which 2/3 contains the meat.
>
> You have
> --host=i386-rumpxen-netbsd
> Other than i386 should not be hard coded,
Fixed.
> I think i386-unknown-rumpxen is probably more correct, as it is not
> strictly netbsd even if it is netbsd like.
I have two counterarguments to that.
Firstly, that causes config.sub to fail with:
checking host system type... Invalid configuration
`i386-unknown-rumpxen': system `rumpxen' not recognized
We need something that will work with existing configure scripts.
Now `i386-rumpxen-none' would work, but:
Secondly, the point of this is to cause a configure script of a naive
userland program (which is what we are trying to compile) to do the
right thing. The rumpuserxen application environment is much more
like NetBSD than anything else. It has a NetBSD libc and a good
number of the NetBSD system calls.
If a program is choosing between multiple implementation/interfaces to
try to use, then if it chooses NetBSD there is a good chance that it
will build and even a hope that it will work.
"none" is much less accurate.
> Other than that I might use rumpxen not rumpuserxen just to keep the
> name lengths down. The "user" in "rumpuser" is not particularly
> meaningful.
I have changed this, thanks.
Ian.
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