config.guess @ Linux

[Martin v. Loewis]

> config.guess refuses to guess the system type on some of my machines
> here. All of them are i?86-unknown-linux-gnu. That configuration seems
> to be missing in the script. It's not a big deal, I tell it the
> configuration manually. But what do I have config.guess for, then? 

config.guess is supposed to find this out correctly. If it does not,
it is probably a bug in that script. Please report it as a bug to the
autoconf and/or gcc bugs lists, or debug it yourself, and submit a
patch to the respective patch lists.

Please note that the configuration does not need to be listed;
config.guess is supposed to find it out by just looking a uname output
and the like (e.g. ld --help).

Regards,
Martin