On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> What is the MANUFACTURER aka VENDOR field in a canonicalization triple
> meant to contain?
AFAIC, it has always been pretty useless, especially since the
config.guess maintainers don't seem to be very sure about it themselves
and change it back and fo
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> > I think those configuration triplets are wrong. I think they should
> > be something like `i386-pc-linuxsuse7.0-gnu' or
> > `i386-pc-linux-gnususe7.0'.
>
> It it not better. "linux" should have the kernel version at the end, as
> this is much more
Hello!
>Imagine the consequences of:
>./configure --build=i386-suse-linux-gnu --host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
It doesn't scare me :-)
You get what you are asking for.
> I think those configuration triplets are wrong. I think they should
> be something like `i386-pc-linuxsuse7.0-gnu' or
>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:52:53 +0200
From: Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What is the MANUFACTURER aka VENDOR field in a canonicalization triple
meant to contain?
It normally contains the manufacturer or vendor of the hardware.
I am asking, because i386-pc-linux distributors
Hi,
What is the MANUFACTURER aka VENDOR field in a canonicalization triple
meant to contain?
My understanding is that it shall describe the vendor/manufacturer of a
board or better the board family, being used to guess/preset settings
for a specific setups, primarily in near-hardware packages (e
