From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 15:52:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12195 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12189 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:52:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA02141; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199806162251.PAA02141@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: leifn@internet.dk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's unknown in i386-unknown-freebsd Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:59:09 +0200 (CEST) >From: Leif Neland >I see the text "i386-unknown-freebsd" often while watching make's. >What is the unknown? The vendor. The FSF/GNU convention is an ordered triplet, separated by hyphens: * machine architecture (e.g., sparc, 68k, i386, alpha, mips,...) * vendor (e.g., Sun, HP, IBM, SGI,...) * OS (e.g., Solaris2, SunOS, FreeBSD, Ultrix, MVS, ...) And all the letters get lower-cased, for consistency & simplicity in searching. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message