Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Cc: Christopher Friedt <cfriedt@××××××××××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] vendor string in <arch>-<vendor>-<os>-<libc>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:30:16
Message-Id: 200704150628.58208.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] vendor string in --- by Christopher Friedt
1 On Sunday 15 April 2007, Christopher Friedt wrote:
2 > is the vendor string completely arbitrary?
3
4 yes
5
6 > Does it have any special significance even in very rare cases?
7
8 as noted by Vladimir, our toolchain packages key off of "softfloat" in the
9 vendor field, but that's completely a Gentoo-ism ... we do it so softfloat is
10 sanely integrated
11 -mike

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