In message <199911220740.XAA11896@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>Jason Thorpe writes
>On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:39:26 +1100 
> matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:

>arch-objformat-netbsd, like:
>
>m68k-aout-netbsd
>i386-elf-netbsd
>
>...I mean, it's not like the "vendor" portion makes any difference
>in NetBSD... So why not make it do something useful?

Yeah, but Andrew's talking about FSF/Cygnus internal use.
Last I looked, they generated a vendor string and then 
use <arch>-*-netbsd in the /bin/sh case statements.
otherwise: yeah, same effect as I suggested. After the fuss is over,
we can go back to * for vendor.

I deont think testing for specific files works, as an elf-vs-aout
test. Sickos like me build all sorts of bits of -current, in a.out
format, on 1.4O kernels. (Most of my machines are in "production" use,
so still have 1.4.1 userland, with additions..)