Re: Rethinking configuration tuples

2023-08-24 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Po Lu wrote: People, the nature and widespread use of config.* precludes any efforts aimed at ``rethinking'' the tuples they accept and generate. If you want your own format, then by all means, proceed with your own project. But please leave config.* in peace. I will say right now that

Re: Rethinking configuration tuples

2023-08-24 Thread Po Lu
People, the nature and widespread use of config.* precludes any efforts aimed at ``rethinking'' the tuples they accept and generate. If you want your own format, then by all means, proceed with your own project. But please leave config.* in peace.

Rethinking configuration tuples (was: Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*)

2023-08-24 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
John Ericson wrote: This is why I opened with "Operating System" lacks a coherent objective definition. The more pugilistic message is to say the rest of the world doesn't think the GNU operating system exists --- that there is simply a choice of kernel (Linux, k*BSD, Hurd, something

Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*

2023-08-24 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Adam Joseph wrote: Quoting Jacob Bachmeyer (2023-08-21 19:35:05) No, we are not. CPU-VENDOR-KERNEL-OS-LIBCABI, with at least one of the If you want to redefine existing terms, please be forthright about the fact that your proposal does so. I argue that this is something that has

Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*

2023-08-24 Thread connor horman
It seems to me reading this thread that we've come into two conflicting realities: * There exists targets that need to be distinguished, and * They are not distinct in any component that config.sub has, therefore they cannot and should not be distinguished. mingw and msvc both use the NT kernel,

Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*

2023-08-24 Thread John Ericson
This is why I opened with "Operating System" lacks a coherent objective definition. The more pugilistic message is to say the rest of the world doesn't think the GNU operating system exists --- that there is simply a choice of kernel (Linux, k*BSD, Hurd, something else...) and choices of

Re: config.sub should normalize *-*-windows-*

2023-08-24 Thread Adam Joseph
Quoting Jacob Bachmeyer (2023-08-21 19:35:05) > No, we are not. CPU-VENDOR-KERNEL-OS-LIBCABI, with at least one of the If you want to redefine existing terms, please be forthright about the fact that your proposal does so. This usage is in conflict with the existing definition; LIBC and ABI are