About platform names...

[David Holmes]

On 17/08/2012 10:45 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2012-08-17 14:24, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> On 2012-08-17 13:55, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>> I'm trying to clean up a bit in the platform naming mess. I'm not
>>> quite sure what's the best way to solve it all, so it might take
>>> several iterations before I've sorted it all out. So in case you see
>>> weird checkins, please just hold on for a while more and let me
>>> finish the cleanup and I hope things will start looking better. :)
>>
>> I now changed the value of OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU, the "new" variable that
>> we're trying to use in build-infra, for the Intel CPUs to x86 and
>> x86_64, respectively. I saw no-one really protesting against my
>> proposal earlier, and I got encouragement for this change from various
>> places.
>
> And, oh, btw, the only really visible way the old values (ia32 and x64)
> was used previously, was in the name of the configurations.

So really the change doesn't change anything in terms of arch, libarch, 
buildarch or bundle name?

David


> So if you let configure name the configurations for you (the default
> mode of operation), these names will change slightly.
>
> /Magnus