<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">sounds good to me!<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></div><div><div>On 28 Mar 2009, at 23:04, Jay wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Tony has established consistency around ARCH_KERNEL.<br> I386_DARWIN<br> PPC_DARWIN<br> AMD64_DARWIN<br> <br>I followed that -- I like it and Tony said to -- but have been putting "32" in things, like:<br> AMD64_FREEBSD<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> AMD64_LINUX<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> SPARC32_LINUX<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> SPARC64_LINUX <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> SPARC64_SOLARIS<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> PPC32_OPENBSD<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> I386_SOLARIS<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> MIP64_OPENBSD <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> etc.<br> <br>I realize some platforms had it the other the other way around.<br>NetBSDi386v2 and a bunch in the ezm3 distribution and FSBD_ALPHA.<br> <br> <br>But, I carefully only asked about platforms with versions in their names, which are clearly dubious, not about the more general issue of naming stuff.<br> <br> <br>If Linux is "permanently" on libc 6.x, like the kernel is permanently 2.6.x, then my question/argument holds less/no water -- that's why I stated that way and made it "stronger" "against" NetBSD and FreeBSD, where I know the version history much better.<br> <br> <br>(I understand, I think, part of the history. I think Linux had its own C runtime, and that got up to around version 5.x. And then there was a big switch to glibc, since that came after "linux libc 5.x", natural to call it 6. Though in reality I think the glibc version is 2.x..maybe it should have been called LINUXGLIBC..? It is mostly moot now, that's not likely to be a name introduced at this point..though there are currently multiple viable C runtimes on Linux -- uclibc, newlib, dietlibc..)<br> <br> <br> - Jay<br><br> <br>> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:11:50 +0100<br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:wagner@elegosoft.com">wagner@elegosoft.com</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jay.krell@cornell.edu">jay.krell@cornell.edu</a><br>> CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:m3devel@elegosoft.com">m3devel@elegosoft.com</a><br>> Subject: RE: [M3devel] ports with versions in their names?<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Quoting Jay <<a href="mailto:jay.krell@cornell.edu">jay.krell@cornell.edu</a>>:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> >> > I don't know if the "6" in "LINUXLIBC6" still makes sense.<br>> >><br>> >> Perhaps just reuse the long obsolet LINUX then?<br>> ><br>> > Given {AMD64,SPARC32,SPARC64,PPC,potentially<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > PPC64,ALPHA,ARM,SH,MIPS32,MIPS64}_LINUX, doesn't it seem wrong to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > use plain "LINUX"?<br>> ><br>> > I know I know most of the world hasn't seen or heard of anything<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > besides x86.. and "64bit" means AMD64... if we just had "LINUX" and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > "LINUX64" hardly anyone would see a problem..<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Sorry, small misunderstanding. I didn't want to omit all architecture/<br>> processor information, just leave out the LIBC6. So perhaps<br>> LINUX_MIPS32 or LINUX_AMD64 etc. would suffice?<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Olaf<br>> --<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH<br>> Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany<br>> phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.elegosoft.com">http://www.elegosoft.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>| Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin<br>> Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>