config.guess manufacturer string?

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:55:27AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Except of very few rare exceptional cases you don't have to know it.
>>>> And when, you can always manually add --build to these package's specs.
>>>
>>> There are plenty of packages that care, usually to pick up optimized
>>> assembly for various CPUs, or whether it is possible to use atomic
>>> instructions or not.
>
> Forgot to add something: This would be --host, not --build
>
> If these packages are using --build to pick up optimizations, they would be
> optimizing for the buildsystem, not for the host.

--host defaults to --build. See ./configure --help.

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Dan