config.guess manufacturer string?
Jakub Jelinek
jakub at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 16:39:49 UTC 2009
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:36:32PM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > In a nutshell: what, if anything, should we do about this?
>
> I believe the right answer is:
>
> > Just leave it up to config.guess upstream like it is now, case closed,
>
> Random comments:
>
> > My reading of http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_17.html is
> > that the manufacturer part of the configuration name is the manufacturer
> > of the CPU, not "OS vendor" so the former "redhat" was always incorrect.
>
> Agreed.
That's nice, except that "pc" or "unknown" are completely useless in the
triplets, while having redhat there provides very useful information.
Jakub
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