Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:40:18 GMT From: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname Message-ID: <200502110840.j1B8eIUq074988@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/77355; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:30:35 +0100 On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:08:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >Description: > > This patch enables the kernel of FreeBSD to give output of i*86 subarches > > in the uname kernel call. As a result, `uname -m' may print "i686", etc > > instead of always "i386". > > Why? Sounds like it could break a lot of stuff. With this change, the config.guess triplet becomes i686-unknown-freebsd5.3 (or whatever suitable). Some programs detect this and use it for optimisation. -- .''`. Proudly running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unstable/unreleased (on UFS2+S) : :' : `. `' http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu `-
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