On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Salisbury, Roger wrote: > Keith / Ralf / All > I just wondering if the UNKNOW aspect "mips-unknown-linux-gnu" of > building packages has some detrimental affect > on the success of building a kernel. > IE > The machine status isn't detected properly. Er, 'mips-unknown-linux-gnu' /is/ the proper machine type. $ uname -a Linux quetzcoatl 2.4.1 #1 Sat Feb 10 23:24:40 CST 2001 alpha unknown $ /usr/share/misc/config.guess alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu $ Results are similar on all other Linux platforms except for x86 machines, IIRC, where 'unknown' is replaced with 'pc'. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer