Why is the configuration name for GNU/Linux "arm-none-linux-gnueabi" instead of just "arm-none-linux-eabi"? Is there a GNU variant of the EABI?
Question
Why is the configuration name for GNU/Linuxarm-none-linux-gnueabi instead of
just arm-none-linux-eabi? Is there a GNU variant of the EABI?Answer
The Free Software Foundation prefers that configuration names for GNU/Linux contain both the string
linux and the string gnu. The configuration arm-none-linux-gnu
refers to the legacy ARM ABI for GNU/Linux. Some tools depend on the fact that configuration names have
at most three hyphens, so gnu and eabi were combined into
a single word.
The ABI used on GNU/Linux is not a special GNU variant of the EABI; it is just the EABI.
This entry was last updated on 8 March 2013.