cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc34 Makefile distinfo

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 7:39 AM -0800 2/20/04, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>  >
>>  You are obviously biased (given your day job).
>
>I am, but I've never demanded that FreeBSD's use of "i386" and
>"ia32" be changed.  ... W/o AMD going to market with this design
>there would be no "ia32e" from Intel.  Intel had no choice and
>was totally forced by the market to do their "ia32e".  We owe
>honoring AMD by calling the platform "amd64".

For what it's worth, I agree completely with David.  There is no
reason to go through the bother of renaming the amd64 port, until
we find out that 'ia32e' is different from 'amd64' in some technical
detail.  And if that does happen, and I do think it *might* happen,
then we should just create the ia32e port, and leave the amd64 port
as it is.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu