From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 20 12:42:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28225 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:42:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA27887; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0y5zFt-0001wg-00; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:41:09 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA17634; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:41:28 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199802202041.NAA17634@harmony.village.org> To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib Makefile.inc Cc: John Birrell , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:30:35 MST." <199802201730.KAA13444@mt.sri.com> References: <199802201730.KAA13444@mt.sri.com> <199802200841.AAA18509@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:41:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199802201730.KAA13444@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: : Why is this being done? It's the same thing with a different name, no? : I thought it was silly when NetBSD did it initially, and it's no less : silly now. MACHINE_ARCH is the CPU architecture (eg mips or m68k) while MACHINE is the computer architecture (eg arc, pmax, news, sgi -or- atari, amiga, sun3, sun3x, apple, hp300). They happen to be the sam efor i386 or alpha, but can be different for other ports. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message