On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Erik Bertelsen wrote:

: > No; ${MACHINE_ARCH:S/mipse[bl]/mips/} is good enough and a bit cleaner.
: 
: The level of cleanlyness depends on two factors:
: 
:   - whose glasses you're wearing :-)
:   - and whether we're guaranteed that only mips processors will
:     give us this problem :-(

Future mips processors will change, too, as there are 64 bit variants that
may show up as, say, "mipsel64".

Yes, future processors could give similar problems.  However, there's a
relatively small number of places where an arch-directory is used.

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