[uClibc]Re: possible changes to 'make install'

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Mar 07, 2001 at 07:54:07PM -0800, David Schleef wrote:
> 
> A possible patch to the install target in the toplevel Makefile.
> It doesn't remove the old target, but it's pretty clear what
> needs to be done.  The current 'make install' does the wrong
> thing in a bunch of cases.
> 
> Any comments?  Should I commit it?

This looks ok to me.

> On a related note, what should the canonical name be for
> uClibc-based systems, in order to separate it from glibc-based?
> I remember this was an issue when switching from libc5
> to glibc2, but I don't remember exactly how the names were.
> IIRC, it was i386-linux-libc1 on Debian and i486-linux-libc5
> on Red Hat.  Should the default install directory therefore
> be <arch>-linux-uClibc?

Hmm.  Either <arch>-linux-uClibc or <arch>-linux-uclibc would
be good.  Do you know of any tools that might have problems with the
uppercase "C"?   Assuming the uppercase isn't a problem, then
yes <arch>-linux-uClibc would be best.

 -Erik

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