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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: RFD - UNAME_MACHINE ?
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:01:34 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <200112262231.fBQMVYf18459@envy.delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Dec 26, 2001 05:31:34 PM
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> Are the problems with ./configure?  It should take a host triple on
> the command line to override what uname tells it:
> 
> ./configure i586-pc-msdosdjgpp

If every distribution used the exact same name, and didn't need 
wrapper bat files around them, this would work.   

This isn't some huge crisis, in 15 minutes I can always figure it out,
but it would be nice not to need to spend the 15 minutes.

For example, older binutils are i386-...-go32, etc.  

> ...  Well-behaved configure scripts should use what they get
> from autoconf, and not by running uname themselves.  And autoconf
> takes its settings from the command line, falling back on
> config.guess (which calls uname to detect DJGPP).

OK, I've been building distributions with bit rot that aren't 
well behaved ...

That's why I thought I'd ask.