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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To: Tino Engel <elrap@web.de>
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Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: What's "unknown" about i386-unknown?
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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.

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Bill Moran
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