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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] change legacy linuxapp/bsdapp names
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:14:27 +0000
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On 3/13/2019 2:43 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 02:21:31PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 3/13/2019 1:59 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 13/03/2019 14:41, Ferruh Yigit:
>>>> On 3/12/2019 10:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>>>> Bruce Richardson (6):
>>>>>>   eal/bsdapp: rename to freebsd
>>>>>>   eal/linuxapp: rename to linux
>>>>>>   build/linux: rename macro from LINUXAPP to LINUX
>>>>>>   build/freebsd: rename macro from BSDPAPP to FREEBSD
>>>>>>   build/meson: change linuxapp to linux in meson cross files
>>>>>>   build: allow linux and freebsd in build configs
>>>>>
>>>>> Applied, thanks
>>>>
>>>> This has potential to break some automation/scripts since changes the names of
>>>> the config files:
>>>> 'make T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc config' becomes
>>>> 'make T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc config' etc...
>>>>
>>>> I suggest highlighting this change in release notes!
>>>
>>> No, the old names should still work.
>>> Otherwise, it would be an API breakage, which is very bad!
>>>
>>
>> Ah, right config is working, how I hit this is:
>>
>> $ make T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc cscope
>> Invalid config: x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
>>
>> 'cscope' (and friends) also should be covered ...
> 
> Strange, because the new configs are just symlinks to the old. I'll need to
> investigate how cscope and friends use the config.

Are we allowed to use symlinks J Will they play nice on windows?