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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:47:25 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Vit=F3rio_Cargnini?= <cargnini@matrix.com.br>
Cc:        fbsd-powerpc <powerpc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What this mean ?
Message-ID:  <423FA35D.7060603@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1111458827.8445.6.camel@shark.xsynapse.com>

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Luís Vitório Cargnini wrote:
> -DTARGET="\powerpc-obrien-freebsd\"
> what is obrien ????

  That's David O'Brien, who maintains binutils.

> why not just powerpc-freebsd or powerpc-eabi or powerpc-mc ???? why
> obrien ? what this mean ?

  It's harmless and is only used during the bmake frontend for the GNU 
binutils compile; it never shows up on the resulting system. The 
crosstools for buildworld use "powerpc-undermydesk-freebsd", also harmless.

later,

Peter.


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