uname ?

From: Dragan Milenkovic (tyrant@galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 12:56:25 EST

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<rpm-related>
Few days ago, I found an incredibly usable option in latest gcc versions.
gcc -march=k6 -mcpu=k6
I started rebuilding SRPMS with these as optflags, just to find out that
some packages don't use optflags, but use -march=`uname -m`.
So ...
</rpm-related>

What about uname -m and non-Intel processors? Is there going to be
a change? I hope we all agree that K6 is not i586 or i686.
I vote for breaking compatibility!

-- Dragan

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