[Nix-dev] Re: New arm platform: qemu-system-arm

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Nicolas Pierron
<nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> writes:

> , system ? "${cpu.name}-${platform}-${kernel.name}"

For many (most?) applications, the kernel is not so important.  What’s
important is the operating system, e.g., GNU.  Most applications
supposedly written for “Linux” are in fact written for GNU/Linux and
would be more easily ported to other GNU variants (currently
GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd) than to, say, BSD.

GNU config.guess uses the ‘CPU-VENDOR-KERNEL-OS’ or simply
‘CPU-VENDOR-OS’ form for this reason (see
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob;f=testsuite/config-guess.data
for examples.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.