AIX status?
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Thu Feb 1 15:31:00 GMT 2001
This config.guess confusion is a known problem. Without
specifying your system configuration and whether the problem was with
binutils or libstdc++ or ..., there was no way to know where to begin
diagnosing your problem.
The problem is that Power3/Power4 processors have re-introduced
the label "POWER". When we originally searched for "PowerPC", we ran into
the opposite problem for some class of processors (maybe 601 or POWER/2).
Those processors possibly no longer are important, but it was basically a
catch-22 of choosing one or another processor to be recognized
incorrectly. The immediate assumption of grepping for PowerPC has
problems.
The output possibilities are:
POWER
POWER2
PowerPC
PowerPC_POWER3
Because all of the strings are in the format output by the AIX lsattr
command, I think that it would be safe to test for ' POWER' -- note the
space. That would distinguish POWER (and POWER2) architecture from
PowerPC_POWER3 architecture.
David
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