Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:58:47 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's "unknown" about i386-unknown? Message-ID: <20071120115847.e3052dbc.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20071120094009.B630@prime.gushi.org> References: <20071120094009.B630@prime.gushi.org>
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In response to "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>: > Hey all. > > I see i386-unknown as a build target all the time. > > So my (possibly silly) question is: what's the unknown variable here? And > why isn't it? I seem to remember a conversation about this, and that the original spec for that string required a "physical location" after the architecture. I'm guessing that at the time it was very important to know which of the few physical machines did the job. If my memory is reliable, it's not that the information is "unknown", it's just that nobody cares any more, therefore nobody bothers to enter the physical location information. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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