That's a function of the config.guess and config.sub scripts installed
by _autosetup.  These scripts are part of your linux distribution.

The boinc configure script will automatically convert
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu to a HOSTTYPE of x86_64-pc-linux-gnu .



On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Christian Beer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe it's not relevant for server only installations but I just
> wondered why the configure script says this:
>
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> This should rather be: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> I get this both on the Virtual Machine and my desktop running Debian.
>
> Regards
> Christian
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