Re: Host name guidelines? (and more)

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

"J. Johnston" wrote:
> 
> KJK::Hyperion wrote:
> >
> > Hi all. I'm about to add a new host to newlib, and I wonder if there are
> > more precise guidelines than "machine-vendor-os". In particular: who's the
> > "vendor", exactly? the machine's or the os's? And what characters can be
> > used as "os", other than alphanumeric? I'm using newlib to power ReactOS's
> > POSIX environment, called POSIX+, and I wonder if a host name of
> > "i386-reactos-posix+" would be legal
> >
> 
> The name would not be legal.  AFAIK, there are no documented restrictions on using the
> '+' character, but regardless, your name doesn't conform to machine-vendor-os.  You might
> want to use pc for your manufacturer field which indicates "for an IBM PC compatible
> system".  Thus, the name would be: i386-pc-reactos.  This is similar to the existing cygwin
> configuration which is i[3456]86-pc-cygwin.
> 
> The following is some internal documentation regarding configuration names that may be of some help to you.  I also have some details about your
> newlib documentation problem following
> this excerpt.
> 

So, based on this doco, i386-pc-reactos-posix+ would be acceptable. 
Reactos is what the doco is calling kernel and posix+ is what the doco
is calling operating_system.

Earnie.