[Fwd: pkgbox64 pkgsrc DragonFly 2.5.1/x86_64 2009-11-05 02:50]

[justin at shiningsilence.com]

> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, justin at shiningsilence.com wrote:
>
>>
>> > In DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 release, the build triplet for target
>> > system is 'amd64-pc-dragonflybsd'.
>> >
>> > However, the build.log for gcc44-4 (pkgsrc report above) shows
>> > the target system as 'x86_64-unknown-dragonflybsd2.5.1'
>> >
>> > Usually version numbers are not part of the triplet and unknown
>> > is either pc or some such.
>> >
>> > So, is this the build triplet in the interim as the transition
>> > happens to a new moniker ?
>>
>> Our system says "amd64", while pkgsrc says "x86-64".  Corecode I think
>> may
>> be working to change this...
>>
>
> Justin, thank you for your reply.
>
> Yes, Simon mentioned about the change from amd64 -> x86_64
>
> What i wanted to highlight was the suffix part !
>
> The system triplet suffix is : dragonflybsd
> The pkgsrc triplet suffix is : dragonflybsd2.5.1
>
> Usually version numbers eg. 2.5.1 are not part of the triplet as
> they keep changing.

Something may have changed in how pkgsrc builds it.  The bulk building
process isn't any different...