On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:09:11AM +0200, Frederick Page wrote:
> >(output from it might also be helpful, here... config.guess
> >specifically seems to run it with -m, -r, -s and -v (at different
> >times).
>
> Quoting from "man uname":
>
> If the -a option is given, the selected information is printed in the
> order `snrvm' with a space between items.
>
> ~# uname -a
> Linux thebetteros 2.0.34 #1 Fri Jan 29 01:44:57 CET 1999 i586 unknown
> ~#
>
> I was not able to isolate the "unknown", machine is i586 (Pentium 90).
Well, config.guess doesn't execute "uname -a" but actually:
UNAME_MACHINE=`(uname -m) 2>/dev/null` || UNAME_MACHINE=unknown
UNAME_RELEASE=`(uname -r) 2>/dev/null` || UNAME_RELEASE=unknown
UNAME_SYSTEM=`(uname -s) 2>/dev/null` || UNAME_SYSTEM=unknown
UNAME_VERSION=`(uname -v) 2>/dev/null` || UNAME_VERSION=unknown
(BTW, isn't "uname -m" (machine hardware) depracated for -p (processor)
in newer architectures?)
So, judging from your manpage output, you'd get:
UNAME_MACHINE: unknown
UNAME_RELEASE: 2.0.34
UNAME_SYSTEM: Linux
UNAME_VERSION: i586
I'm guessing that it REALLY would prefer:
UNAME_MACHINE: i586
UNAME_RELEASE: 2.0.34
UNAME_SYSTEM: Linux
UNAME_VERSION: unknown
(then again, the manpage is probably out of date)
(it would appear as though, possibly, some of the uname arguments
might be fubar'd in config.guess (not that I've looked at it quite
that long as to definitely point at that -- I'd most likely guess
that it's a slight variation in Linux, first...))
So, execute the following and get it back to me and I'd be happy
to try to help you further (unless you can debug it yourself):
uname -m
uname -r
uname -s
uname -v
ld -help
(all of these can be found in "./config.guess" line 495-627 or so)
> >Hopefully that might be enough to help...
>
> Thanks for your feedback, I'm a little worried about that "unknown",
> that might indeed be the cause for my troubles, wonder what's wrong
> here.
Actually "unknown" is ok, in some spots...
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