Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
David Feuer (dfeuer@his.com)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 02:13:26 -0500
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> In message <199901022319.SAA02705@saturn.cs.uml.edu>, "Albert D. Cahalan"
> write
> s:
> +-----
> | Brandon S. Allbery writes:>
> | > "i386-redhat-linux", eh? On S.u.S.E.? Debian? Stampede?
> | > Pacific Hi-Tech? None of which are sufficiently different to
> | > require a different canonical triplet. So all of them would end
> |
> | The middle part is your vendor. My vendor was Red Hat. You can have
> | i386-sls-linux, i386-tamu-linux, i386-mcc-linux, or whatever.
> | The default would be "unknown", not "redhat".
> +--->8
>
> Please re-read the quoted part of my original statement. The key part
> begins with the word "None", since you apparently missed it the first time
> and need a pointer.
>
> Why should config.guess care what vendor variant of Linux is used? It's
> mostly irrelevant; the differences are things which differ on other systems
> as well and therefore should be tracked by non-Linux-specific rules. There
> should not be a vendor in the usual sense there at all for Linux --- it
> exists mainly to deal with silliness like multiple mutations of System V and
> 4.xBSD as put out by various commercial vendors, each with their own
> mostly-incompatible proprietary value-added.
>
> (config.guess rant: *why* the exact processor ID? About half of configure
> scripts fall over in ECE Linux builds because they don't expect "i686".
> This should be "x86". And if it has to be exact, where are AMD and Cyrix?)
>
> IOW the correct config.guess triple *should* be "x86-pc-linux". Or
> "x86-gnu-linux"; an accurate statement, since the userspace code is
> something like 85% FSF code (and this nicely ends the current argument).
> "i?86-pc-linux-gnu" is silly, and "i?86-{redhat,suse,...}-linux{,-gnu}" is
> sillier.
GNU is not a linux vendor. I think that field should never have
existed. Oh well.... ***pc is worse than most anything else!
pc can mean a machine compatible to descendents of the IBM PC
(what you meant), an Alpha, a Mac, a PowerPC, or just about
anything else that could be called "personal". I suppose a Cray
if you're really rich.....
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
> system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
> carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
> We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
--
David Feuer
dfeuer@his.com
dfeuer@binx.mbhs.edu
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