On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  (yes, i *am* going to be this pedantic all day long. at least until
> football starts.)
>
> over at
> http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1/toolchain/,
> a couple optional fixups:
>
> 1) the toolchain ...i686-x86_64... doesn't appear to belong under the
> x86-64 directory.  (it *does* live properly under the i686 directory.)
>
> 2) the directory name is "x86-64" while all the toolchain tarball
> names contain "x86_64".  any reason why these can't be consistent?
> what's the standard?  it just seems confusing to keep bouncing back
> and forth.
>

since x86_64 (which is more familiar) has an 'underscore' in it and
bitbake reserved that
for overrides we had a potential conflict here thats why alternate
name x86-64 is used
actually they both mean the same thing.

> rday
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