Christian Schwarz wrote: > > Next step: GNU's "configure" utility. I thought that we had agreed on > using > i386-unknown-linux > (and similar for the other architectures), but then I had just discovered > that GCC uses > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/ > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > (first it says "i486" instead of "i386", second it ommits the "unknown"). >
Yes, for hysterical raisins, we use i486 instead of i386. The difference is reflected in the results you get form dpkg --print-architecture and dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture. On most systems, these are identical. On Intel, they happen to be different. We leave out the "unknown" becuase A) it's ugly, and B) nobody cares who built your silly pc-clone box anyway. They're all the same, except for the ways in which they are different. :) (Don't ask me what the historical reasons are, though. I might start to whimper...) --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
