On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:24:00PM -0800, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Feb 25, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Waqar Malik wrote:
>
> >>I think we should choose a platform that has a wide acceptance - i
> >>dunno
> >>whats up with linux now a days, but isnt redhat, debian or mandrake
> >>the
> >>most widely used distributions. Why not choose one of these as a
> >>reference.
> >>
> >I think RedHat now Fedora would be a good choice. Commercial companies
> >tend
> >to support that. And YellowDog is based on that as well. I guess we
> >can take
> >a vote.
>
> Let me ask the stupid question - given the diversity, why should we
> even try to define 'linux'? Why not just have:
>
> platforms darwin linux-fedora linux-yellowdog linux-debian
This is why autoconf was invented. Until/unless we come up with similar
functionality, I'm not sure it's worth it to try and define platforms
any more specific than OS (linux) and possibly architecture (x86, ppc).
-landonf
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