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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:17:54 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        "M.D. DeWar" <mark@s-wit.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: why is it known as unknown
Message-ID:  <20031029231754.GA16963@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <000e01c39e64$4727ba50$fb65a8c0@ocfl061>
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0500, M.D. DeWar wrote:
> for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see
> programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as
> i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system
> or when doing a configure it shows as that ?

The middle part is really supposed to be the type of the system, so if
you were running on an IBM system it ougth to say i386-ibm-freebsd4.8
and if you used a system from Digital it might be alpha-dec-freebsd4.8. 
On PC systems it is often impossible to determine from a program what
kind of system it is, and it really doesn't matter much anyway, so the
middle part is just reported as 'unknown'.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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