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

2023-08-26 Thread John Ericson
On 8/24/23 23:54, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: John Ericson wrote: This is why I opened with "Operating System" lacks a coherent objective definition. [...] As I understand, historically, "operating systems" were proprietary monoliths and the GNU Project originally expected to produce another

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