On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Nathan Dorfman wrote:

: Side note: configuring using pkgsrc notes the target system as
: "sparc--netbsd" whereas running configure without pkgsrc notes it
: as "sparc-unknown-netbsd1.3.2". Is there a reason the first is
: broken like that? Is it a/the problem?

It's not "broken."  It's deliberately set to sparc--netbsd for brevity, as
all autoconf scripts that care about the processor/OS has the needed
information in that small block.  When you do "./configure", it does a more
verbose "automatic" detection of the system type.

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