Subject: Re: Proposed improvements to toolchain2netbsd and config.guess
To: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/14/2002 11:07:15
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Martin Weber wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:58:18AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > [...]
> > : fredb@tautology-> pwd
> > : /s/pkgsrc/www/arena
> > : fredb@tautology-> uname -msr
> > : NetBSD 1.5.3_ALPHA i386
> > : fredb@tautology-> make show-var VARNAME=MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM
> > : i386--netbsd
> > :
> > : That doesn't jibe with anything else: not bsd.own.mk, and not the
> > : "config.guess" in toolchain (which you submitted to the GNU people).
> >
> > Yes, this should be fixed.
>
> This seems not to occur on -current:
>
> [18:01:05]phaeton@phaeton:/usr/pkgsrc/www/arena % uname -smr
> NetBSD 1.5ZA i386
> [18:01:09]phaeton@phaeton:/usr/pkgsrc/www/arena % make show-var VARNAME=MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM
> i386--netbsdelf

I know. On current, "pkgsrc" picks up MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM from
bsd.own.mk. It just needs to conform for 1.5.* and older.

Frederick