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1.4
1.5 Introduction
1.6 History
1.7 +Referring to crosstool-NG
1.8 Installing crosstool-NG
1.9 Install method
1.10 The hacker's way
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1.12 made it available to the community, in case it was of interest to any one.
1.13
1.14
1.15 +_____________________________
1.16 + /
1.17 +Referring to crosstool-NG /
1.18 +__________________________/
1.19 +
1.20 +
1.21 +The long name of the project is crosstool-NG:
1.22 + * no leading uppercase (except as first word in a sentence)
1.23 + * crosstool and NG separated with a hyphen (dash)
1.24 + * NG in uppercase
1.25 +
1.26 +Crosstool-NG can also be referred to by its short name CT-NG:
1.27 + * all in uppercase
1.28 + * CT and NG separated with a hyphen (dash)
1.29 +
1.30 +The long name is preferred over the short name, except in mail subjects, where
1.31 +the short name is a better fit.
1.32 +
1.33 +When referring to a specific version of crosstool-NG, append the version number
1.34 +either as:
1.35 + * crosstool-NG X.Y.Z
1.36 + - the long name, a space, and the version string
1.37 + * crosstool-ng-X.Y.Z
1.38 + - the long name in lowercase, a hyphen (dash), and the version string
1.39 + - this is used to name the release tarballs
1.40 + * crosstool-ng-X.Y.Z+hg_id
1.41 + - the long name in lowercase, a hyphen, the version string, and the Hg id
1.42 + (as returned by: ct-ng version)
1.43 + - this is used to differentiate between releases and snapshots
1.44 +
1.45 +The frontend to crosstool-NG is the command ct-ng:
1.46 + * all in lowercase
1.47 + * ct and ng separated by a hyphen (dash)
1.48 +
1.49 +
1.50 ___________________________
1.51 /
1.52 Installing crosstool-NG /