Re: [PATCH] Improve binutils testsuite coverage for GNU/Hurd (and kFreeBSD?)

[Thomas Schwinge <thomas at schwinge dot name>]

Hello!

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:40:47PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 2010/10/28, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>:
> >I generally simply windened these to include
> > *-*-gnu*, too.
> >
> > As the triplet *-*-gnu* not only matches GNU/Hurd systems, but also
> > *-*-linux-gnu* and *-*-kfreebsd-gnu* we have to be a bit careful.
> 
> That's what $host_os is for (as opposed to $host).
> 
> In general, most cases where $host is used are gratuitous and just
> looking for trouble.

Ehm, yes, but my point was that you would want this improvement too, and
thus my patch still holds.


Regards,
 Thomas

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