Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jan 99 04:28 EST | From | (Robert Kiesling) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux |
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> IOW the correct config.guess triple *should* be "x86-pc-linux". Or > "x86-gnu-linux"; an accurate statement, since the userspace code is > something like 85% FSF code (and this nicely ends the current argument). > "i?86-pc-linux-gnu" is silly, and "i?86-{redhat,suse,...}-linux{,-gnu}" is > sillier.
Not silly, but probably completely wrong. The "unknown" is the output of the "uname -p" command on Intel/Linux machines. The configure scripts don't do any initial tests, by assembling or compiling code, except Alpha and MIPS. The "uname -p" option is supposed to result in the processor, which actually (on my Pentium) is supplied by "uname -m". If the individual distributions supply their vendor-specific name--which has nothing to do with the libraries--then any distribution that substitutes their own label is not POSIX compliant. But I haven't looked at the POSIX standard at all, nor autoconf very closely
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Robert Kiesling kiesling@ix.netcom.com
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