From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 759 invoked from network); 12 Dec 1996 03:49:54 -0000 Received: from dns.primenet.com.au (203.24.36.40) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Dec 1996 03:49:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 386 invoked from network); 11 Dec 1996 18:51:35 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by dns.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Dec 1996 18:51:35 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA15226; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:43:31 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:43:31 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199612111844.TAA30151@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: i586-unknown-linux-gnu? To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh workers list) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:44:18 +0100 (MET) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL27 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"7DuJ23.0.rj3.J3mho"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2559 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu The new autoconf indentifies linux as linux-gnu. Unfortunately that can break startup scripts depending on $OSTYPE. I'd like to know what do you think about changing OSTYPE from linux to linux-gnu. We can edit the new config.guess to get the original OSTYPE but that would disagree with the GNU standard names. I really do not understand why FSF is so annoyed with i586-unknown-linux. It would be more logical to call elf linux with libc.so.5 to linux as before, and linux-gnu can mean linux with the new GNU libc.so.6. Zoltan