On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:17:20PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I think that maybe the definition of reasonable might just as well be:
> > whatever config.guess can deal with.
>
> We can get config.guess changed without difficulty. So I think that we
> should choose what best fits the presum
> I think that maybe the definition of reasonable might just as well be:
> whatever config.guess can deal with.
We can get config.guess changed without difficulty. So I think that we
should choose what best fits the presumptions of any packages that use
uname -m and do NOT use config.guess.
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On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:26:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Change it if you feel it should be, but consider some Makefiles out there
> are currently reliying on uname -m for their filenaming conventions
> (see any Jorg Schilling program for example, now being ported)
Of course they should,
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:12:39PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The utsname.machine string is chosen in proc/host.c:initialize_version_info.
> Mach's host_basic_info gives you integers for "CPU type" and "CPU subtype",
> with constants defined in . Our file proc/cpu-types.c
> gives string names
The utsname.machine string is chosen in proc/host.c:initialize_version_info.
Mach's host_basic_info gives you integers for "CPU type" and "CPU subtype",
with constants defined in . Our file proc/cpu-types.c
gives string names to these, and we use "type-subtype" as the
utsname.machine string. The
