From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 15:38:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09972 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:38:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09966 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09758; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:38:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980616173813.A9688@emsphone.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:38:13 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: leifn@internet.dk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's unknown in i386-unknown-freebsd References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: ; from "Leif Neland" on Tue Jun 16 22:59:09 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 16), Leif Neland said: > I see the text "i386-unknown-freebsd" often while watching make's. > > What is the unknown? I think it's "vendor", or "platform". Like I would see "386-sequent-dynix" on an old 8-CPU Sequent machine. Or "alphaev56-dec-osf4.0d" on an Alpha. Or "sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3" on an older Sun box. Since PC hardware is sort of generic, it's left at "unknown". Sometimes I've seen "i386-pc-freebsd", though. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message