Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:52:53 +0200
From: Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What is the MANUFACTURER aka VENDOR field in a canonicalization triple
meant to contain?
It normally contains the manufacturer or vendor of the hardware.
I am asking, because i386-pc-linux distributors have started to set this
field to their name for the gnu-toolchains distributed with their
distributions (IMHO, an uncredible decision ;).
However, a PC still remains a PC and is not a SuSE, RH, Debian or
whatsoever machine.
Imagine the consequences of:
./configure --build=i386-suse-linux-gnu --host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
I think those configuration triplets are wrong. I think they should
be something like `i386-pc-linuxsuse7.0-gnu' or
`i386-pc-linux-gnususe7.0'.
Ian
