Am Son, 2002-01-27 um 02.30 schrieb Michael Goetze: > > > config.guess returns CPU-Vendor-OS, not CPU-VENDOR-Kernel. > > I've never quite understood what the "vendor" is supposed to mean, exactly. IIRC, it originally meant to be a unique string to identify a particular board-HW. This also manifest inside of config.sub, which uses the term "manufacturer" for what you and autoconf calls vendor:
# The goal of this file is to map all the various variations of a given # machine specification into a single specification in the form: # CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-OPERATING_SYSTEM # or in some cases, the newer four-part form: # CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-KERNEL-OPERATING_SYSTEM Eg. there can be i386-based systems running Linux on non-PC-HW, where 'pc' would be wrong. > However, in the case of PCs, the software and hardware are usually from > different sources. Now, which of these looks more useful to you? > > i386-compaq-linux, i386-dell-netbsd, i386-gateway-hurd > i386-debian-linux, i386-debian-netbsd, i386-debian-hurd > > Yeah, that's what I thought. None of them, in all cases, it's still a PC, and therefore it's irrelevant if being used on a Compaq, Dell or whatsoever. > Either way, the "unknown" has to go, IMHO. Nope - This just denotes the "manufacturer" not be of any relevance. AFAIK, the "vendor"-field has never been used for something of real importantance, which also means that it's actual value doesn't really matter, and has allowed Linux-distributors, to start using their brand names in that field. This also means the "manufacturer" field at present is close to be completely useless. Ralf
