[fedora-arm] Re: How to properly name a cross-toolchain package?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Jul 11 08:21:51 UTC 2009
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> I plan to add arm-toolchain into Fedora and encountered a difficulty -
> how to properly name the package? From what I found in the Internets,
> the cross-toolchains *often* named with the following prefix:
>
> <arch>-<vendor>-<operating system>-<libc>-
>
> For example:
>
> i686-pc-linux-gnu-
> powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=3
>
> However sometimes they named differently (arm-none-eabi-,
> arm-uclinuxeabi-, etc). Some cross-compilers already included into
> Fedora, and their packages naming schemes are also different - some
> examples of prefixes are arm-gp2x-linux-, avr-, msp430-, spu-
> (mingw32 differs from others because it, at least, implies target OS
> and libc).
>
> I'm sure, it's time to create unified rules for packaging of
> cross-toolchains, but right now I'm asking you for help in proper
> naming of it. Should we name it as <arch>-<vendor>-<operating
> system>-<libc>-gcc
IM(NS)HO: basically yes.
It's the clearest and least confusing from.
> or should we use some other naming schemes? What
> values should be used for <vendor> - "fedora" maybe?
No.
> O should we simply drop this field ("unknown")?
No.
GCC's canonicalization triples (the triples passed as --target=<..> when
configuring a cross-toolchain) are standardized and can not be chosen at
random.
What occasionally confuses people is the fact that for some targets
abbreviations exist rsp. and that theses triples exit in an "external"
(often abbreviated) and "internal" (fully expanded) form.
Ralf
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