If there was a version number in the Vendor field I'd be lots happier. In the RH distros I've seen (and the config.guess output on those boxes) I have still only seen "pc" for the Vendor field.
H -- > On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:43, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Harlan Stenn wrote: > > > > > If the releases are all that similar, why not use: > > > > > > i686-GnuLinux-* > > > > > > as your test, and provide the "popular" distributions in the 3rd field? > > > > This is a little more reasonable, > > How would that be basically different from what most Linux distributors > do these days? > > i386-redhat-linux-gnu > i586-suse-linux-gnu > > Essentially the main difference would be providing a distribution > version number. > > But that's such a marginal detail which apparently is negligible for the > vast amount of applications to config.guess. If you really need it, you > can still obtain it in other ways (grep'ing /etc/*-release). > > Ralf > >
