From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10109241704.AA15111@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP & Windows 2000 weelky status report for 23-Sep-2001
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:04:33 -0500 (CDT)
Cc:	h DOT m DOT brand AT hccnet DOT nl (H.Merijn Brand), eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
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> > I ask because perls config expects the last element to start with 'pc' for
> > djgpp environments.
> 
> I'm guessing that your uname.exe was built with the CVS library.  The 
> function `uname' in the CVS is much more smart about the CPU type, so it 
> reports i686 instead of the mere pc that was reported with djdev203.
> 
> The Perl config scripts should be updated to know about this change.

Should we return pc686 from CVS library?  I don't see why i686 is any more
informative than pc686, especially if it breaks current code.

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