Subject: Re: configure: "mipseb--netbsd" pkgsrc failures
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@rezrov.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/10/2003 15:13:16
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:18:59AM -0500, Tom Vier wrote:

> Invalid configuration `mipseb--netbsd': machine `mipsbe-' not recongized

Older GNU autoconf (specifically, config.sub) didn't recognize mipseb as a
valid target.

> why the extra dash?

The semantics are ARCH-VENDOR-OS.  For some architectures the vendor is easy
to determine (vax-* is going to be DEC, for instance), but there are lots
of mips and i386 vendors out there.

On a related note, has anyone successfully built bash under -current?  Odd
malloc things happen ...

-- Chris
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