Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
29 Mar 1999 11:55:37 +0200


Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> writes:

|> > > Has anyone seen this? Where Richard Stallman stood up and insisted that
|> > > Linux be called GNU Linux?
|> >
|> > Heh.. remember the main reason there is an egcs ? :)
|>
|> egcs still contains the config.sub file which unconditionally renames
|> "linux" to "linux-gnu" ignoring the user's will as well as the GNU
|> machine naming conventions.

So what? This is not used for user visible parts. The explicitly named
target is normally preferred.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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