config.guess/config.sub improvements

Lassi A. Tuura Lassi.Tuura@cern.ch
Thu Jan 29 00:41:00 GMT 1998


On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	This depends on what LynxOS does under the covers.  For the
> various non-embedded Unix variants other than AIX (e.g., Linux, NetBSD),
> only PowerPC is supported.  Lynx seems to be utilizing much of the AIX
> base and has supported the original POWER architecture.  The PowerPC
> version of AIX emulates the trapped POWER instructions; I do not know what
> Lynx does.  The architecture is fully configurable at compile time, so the
> builtin defaults are somewhat irrelevant.  Using the proper architecture
> is important for performance.

If I understand you correctly, `config.guess' should really return
powerpc-lynx-lynxos* on PPC, instead of the current rs6000-*.  Anybody
object if I send a patch that does this?  Would it break anything else?
I suppose lynx.h could use some editing at least, but I don't really know
what.  It seems that it currently assumes rs6000 only.

//lat
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