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I thought I had sent a followup on this:<br> https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3devel/2010-April/006836.html<br><br><br>Can you suggest precise platform name and precise other decisions?<br><br><br>This is coming up sooner-not-later also for I386_SOLARIS/AMD64_SOLARIS.<br>The provided machine's readme says we have Solaris 8, 9, 10 machines,<br>with multiple versions of Sun and GNU compilers.<br><br><br>Do I just declare that we only support Sun compiler?<br>Anyone who for some reason wants GNU gets to "rewrite" the config file and keep it to himself?<br>Or we somehow provide Sun and GNU "configurations" and user can pick one?<br><br><br>Do we have I386_SOLARIS_SUNCC and I386_SOLARIS_GNUCC?<br>or I386_SOLARIS_CC and I386_SOLARIS_GCC?<br>
or I386_SOLARIS_SUN and I386_SOLARIS_GNU?<br>
<br><br>I wouldn't mind "helping" people and author the gcc support in quake.<br> With some plan to move quake into cm3 in future.<br>But I don't want this to snowball into having to list extra identical platforms everywhere,<br>as has been the case for SOLsun and SOLgnu.<br> Granted, platform-specific code is extremely rare now.<br><br><br>But the "one target, multiple configurations" of NT386/GNU/MINGNU did seem to get too messy/confusing.<br><br><br> - Jay<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: hosking@cs.purdue.edu<br>Subject: Re: [M3devel] new target names -- SOLsun vs. SOLgnu?<br>Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:09:08 -0400<br>To: jay.krell@cornell.edu<br><br>
<base>Sounds reasonable.<div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 17 Apr 2010, at 06:50, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">If we have targets, say, I386_NT, I386_CYGWIN, I386_MINGW, I386_LINUX, I386_FREEBSD, I386_NETBSD, SPARC32_SOLARIS or SPARC_SOLARIS..how does one capture the SOLsun vs. SOLgnu difference? SPARC32_SOLARIS_SUN vs. SPARC32_SOLARIS_GNU? SPARC_SOLARIS_SUNCC, SPARC_SOLARIS_GCC?<br>"target is underscore separated list of relevant names, usually two but not limited to two"?<br> <br> <br>Drop SOLgnu and just equate SPARC32_SOLARIS with SOLsun?<br>Given that the reason for SOLgnu was because cc was not bundled with OS at some point?<br> But now gcc and cc are both bundled as I understand!<br> <br> <br>Do some sort of autoconfig, sensitive to the CC environment variable?<br> That's actually pretty easy and pretty cheap. Not a terrible idea.<br> <br> <br>I'm not really pushing hard on this topic, just that I want to cross build Cygwin from non-NT and was hitting minor problems.<br>Mainly I want to see if Cygwin pthreads works now, now that the hanging test case got "rewritten", so I can drop the SchedulerPosix.m3 file which duplicates content verbatim out of ThreadPThread.m3..<br> <br> <br> - Jay<br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div> </body>
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