Why "unknown"?

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Sharov
Why does config.guess prints "unknown" instead of "pc" for PCs? For example, my athlon64 system always gets x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (which is hardcoded in config.guess exactly like that), while my slackware distribution compiles gcc and the like with x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, which is not only shorter

Re: Why "unknown"?

2007-02-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
Mike Sharov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why does config.guess prints "unknown" instead of "pc" for PCs? What is a PC anyway? Is a 32 cpu system a PC? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerpri

Re: Why "unknown"?

2007-02-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Andreas Schwab wrote: Why does config.guess prints "unknown" instead of "pc" for PCs? What is a PC anyway? Is a 32 cpu system a PC? Given that I think most laymen wouldn't call a "Mac" a "PC", one answer might be a computer with IBM-PC compatible hardware... i.e. anything x86 or x86_64 arc

Re: Why "unknown"?

2007-02-12 Thread Warren Young
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Andreas Schwab wrote: What is a PC anyway? Is a 32 cpu system a PC? ...anything x86 or x86_64 architecture. So is this: http://unisys.com/products/enterprise__servers/high_d_end__servers/features.htm a PC, then? ___

Re: Why "unknown"?

2007-02-12 Thread Bob Rossi
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:53:59PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Matthew Woehlke wrote: > >Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> > >>What is a PC anyway? Is a 32 cpu system a PC? > > > >...anything x86 or x86_64 architecture. > > So is this: > > http://unisys.com/products/enterprise__servers/high_d_en