Re: config.guess and freedom (was: 1.8 and mkdir_p)

[Harlan Stenn]

If there was a version number in the Vendor field I'd be lots happier.

In the RH distros I've seen (and the config.guess output on those boxes) I
have still only seen "pc" for the Vendor field.

H
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> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:43, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Harlan Stenn wrote:
> > 
> > > If the releases are all that similar, why not use:
> > >
> > >  i686-GnuLinux-*
> > >
> > > as your test, and provide the "popular" distributions in the 3rd field?
> > 
> > This is a little more reasonable,
> 
> How would that be basically different from what most Linux distributors
> do these days?
> 
> i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> i586-suse-linux-gnu
> 
> Essentially the main difference would be providing a distribution
> version number.
> 
> But that's such a marginal detail which apparently is negligible for the
> vast amount of applications to config.guess. If you really need it, you
> can still obtain it in other ways (grep'ing /etc/*-release).
> 
> Ralf
> 
>