Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
04 Jan 1999 12:58:32 +0100


kiesling@ix.netcom.com (Robert Kiesling) writes:

|> > IOW the correct config.guess triple *should* be "x86-pc-linux". Or
|> > "x86-gnu-linux"; an accurate statement, since the userspace code is
|> > something like 85% FSF code (and this nicely ends the current argument).
|> > "i?86-pc-linux-gnu" is silly, and "i?86-{redhat,suse,...}-linux{,-gnu}" is
|> > sillier.
|>
|> Not silly, but probably completely wrong. The "unknown" is the output
|> of the "uname -p" command on Intel/Linux machines.

Nope. It's the vendor part.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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