> > It really does seem like a hack to use triplets in this way; I think > > Paul's point that anything that depends on the toolchain triplet to > > determine ABI is inherently busted is pretty persuasive. > > Which means the whole GNU way of doing this has always been busted, > since that's essentially how the world has always worked... :-)
Um, I though that GNU (autoconf) way of doing things was to test for features, rather than relying on hardcoded per-system mappings. Paul
