On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 12:41:58PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > Also, consider that people might have makefiles/scripts written for > the current names, so if $tools/shle--netbsdelf-gcc of say netbsd-9 > suddenly becomes $tools/shle--netbsd-gcc in netbsd-10 - it just > creates random work for random people. Now everyone have to adapt to > work with both older and newer versions so that you can make things > look a tiny bit nicer. Neither I nor John is proposing changing the default name (e.g. the one determined by config.guess). Our suggestion is simply to make "netbsd" mean "netbsdelf" rather than "netbsdaout", not to rename "netbsdelf" to "netbsd", or to change anything at all that currently uses the name "netbsdelf".
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