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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:47:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
To:        leifn@internet.dk
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's unknown in i386-unknown-freebsd
Message-ID:  <199806162247.SAA20480@lucy.bedford.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616225737.6013A-100000@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk> from Leif Neland at "Jun 16, 98 10:59:09 pm"

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Leif Neland wrote:
> I see the text "i386-unknown-freebsd" often while watching make's. 
> 
> What is the unknown?

The vendor of your system. It can't be known, as it happens.

The message is from gcc. architecture-vendor-OS

For a system with a single vendor you might see something like

	mipsel-dec-ultrix

for a compiler for a Mips-based system made by Digital Equipment
Co. (R.I.P. :-( ) running ultrix (R.I.P. :-) )

dave
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