[distcc] Re: distcc 2.9 released

[Martin Pool]

On 23 Jul 2003, Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org> writes:
> 
> > > I've made some new packages for distcc 2.9 and reviewed the 
> > > README.packaging. The last paragraph also refers to renaming the different 
> > > compilers and I was wondering if you could at least mention the naming 
> > > policy we discussed before, eg:
> 
> > > 	i386-redhat-linux-cc-2.96
> > > 	i386-redhat-linux-cc-3.2
> > > 	i386-redhat-linux-cc-3.2.2
> 
> It's wrong to put "redhat" in the MANUFACTURER field of a triplet.
> For Linux systems, permissible values are: axis, ibm, pc and
> unknown.

I guess if Red Hat apply incompatible patches as apprently happened in
2.96, they ought to call it 

 i386-unknown-linux-gcc-2.96rh

or something?

-- 
Martin