[Fedora-packaging] Namespace for cross-compilation tools?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:
> 
> RC> Why?
> 
> What is "i386" and why does it have a subpackage of "rtems4.7"?
>
> RC> This name is the name being used for GNU crosstool toolchains for
> RC> many years (> a decade). It corresponds to the target
> RC> canonicalization tuple internally being used by binutils/gcc/gdb,
> RC> and the autotools.
> 
> So?
Yes. Target canonicalization tuples are standardized (In particular in
binutils, GCC and gdb) and shared between *all* projects using
config.guess and config.sub (I.e. all package using the autotools).

>   We are free to make decisions for ourselves instead of blindly
> using someone else's naming convention.
Yes, it's our freedom to waste time on re- and over engineering parts
others have spend decades on.

A gcc cross compiler's components are called 
<target>-<component>

You can even find traces of this in Fedora:
e.g.
/usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-gcc
/usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux-c++

I.e. people will be looking for <target>-<tool>

>   If the name is completely
> confusing (as it is to me) then surely we should talk about it before
> just stuffing it into the repository.
Would packages be called 
i386-cygwin-gcc
or
i386-redhat-gcc
i586-suse-gcc
sparc-sun-solaris2.8-gcc

be confusing to you?

IMO, they are self-explanatory.

Ralf