Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:48:01 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Tino Engel <elrap@web.de> Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's "unknown" about i386-unknown? Message-ID: <20071120164801.124a585c.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4743554C.9090103@web.de> References: <20071120094009.B630@prime.gushi.org> <20071120115847.e3052dbc.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <4743554C.9090103@web.de>
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In response to Tino Engel <elrap@web.de>: > Bill Moran schrieb: > > 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. > > > > Well, I actually have i386-portbld-7,0-BETA3. > How does that fit? Don't know. It's entirely possible that I'm remembering wrong. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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