> I'd like to cast a vote for changing the uname output to 'x86' for the
> intel 386, 486, 586 et al.
Not possible. x86 covers 8086/80186/80286 and would be confusing with
the 16bit linux..
Its too late now. i486, etc. should never have happened.
About two years back I noticed most autoconf 'configure' scripts broke, but
nowadays things are not nearly as bad. for the few that don't work,
regenerating the scripts usually works.
I guess if people really do have a problem with this, then rename uname to
uname.real and add this script as uname:
#!/bin/sh
uname.real $* | sed s:i.86:i386:
and do something similar for 'arch'.
-Chris