What this mean ?

[Peter Grehan]

Luís Vitório Cargnini wrote:
> -DTARGET="\powerpc-obrien-freebsd\"
> what is obrien ????

  That's David O'Brien, who maintains binutils.

> why not just powerpc-freebsd or powerpc-eabi or powerpc-mc ???? why
> obrien ? what this mean ?

  It's harmless and is only used during the bmake frontend for the GNU 
binutils compile; it never shows up on the resulting system. The 
crosstools for buildworld use "powerpc-undermydesk-freebsd", also harmless.

later,

Peter.