Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Michael Goetze
--- Tobias Rundström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 03:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Agreed. It probably was for System V, which different vendors customized. > > Hardware vendors don't customize Linux, distributors do. > > > > However, that raises an interesting question: s

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am Son, 2002-01-27 um 02.30 schrieb Michael Goetze: > > > config.guess returns CPU-Vendor-OS, not CPU-VENDOR-Kernel. > > I've never quite understood what the "vendor" is supposed to mean, exactly. IIRC, it originally meant to be a unique string to identify a particular board-HW. This also manifes

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Michael Goetze
> > I've never quite understood what the "vendor" is supposed to mean, exactly. > IIRC, it originally meant to be a unique string to identify a particular > board-HW. This also manifest inside of config.sub, which uses the term > "manufacturer" for what you and autoconf calls vendor: > > # The go

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Tobias Rundström
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 03:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Agreed. It probably was for System V, which different vendors customized. > Hardware vendors don't customize Linux, distributors do. > > However, that raises an interesting question: should uname be changed? Linux darkness 2.4.14 #3 Mon Nov 2

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Michael Goetze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020127 02:37]: > Still at it, eh? Mind telling us how far along you are? I haven't heard from > you for a long time. I spare myself and you all the excuses for not beeing as far as the netbsd port. Not so much happend, but I still work on it if i have time. I

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Nero
I would help out if I could, but all I could do is help test, since I can not code.. (I run the -stable branch of FreeBSD) On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know exactly how you feel. I seem to be working on the FreeBSD port > alone, also. Fortunately, some work can be shared

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread utsl
I know exactly how you feel. I seem to be working on the FreeBSD port alone, also. Fortunately, some work can be shared back and forth. On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 09:11:51PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Michael Goetze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020127 02:37]: > > Still at it, eh? Mind telling us how

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Nero
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:27, you wrote: > I have a chroot at ftp://trantor.utsl.org/pub, if you want to try it out. > The tar is out of date, because I've been concentrating on getting to the > point where I can let people make their own chroot's with debootstrap. > Almost there. > > I've been workin

Debian GNU/NetBSD webspace

2002-01-27 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi webmasters. I'm one of the Debianers working on the Debian GNU/NetBSD project mentioned in DWN a little while ago. Would it be possible to get some webspace on the official Debian server? It would be a great opportunity to get us away from SourceForge, which, as you may know, now runs on non-fre