why is it known as unknown

2003-10-29 Thread M.D. DeWar
for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system or when doing a configure it shows as that ? thanks curious cat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: why is it known as unknown

2003-10-29 Thread andi payn
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:33, M.D. DeWar wrote: for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system or when doing a configure it shows as that ? The short answer is that 'unknown' means that the applications

Re: why is it known as unknown

2003-10-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0500, M.D. DeWar wrote: for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system or when doing a configure it shows as that ? The middle part is really supposed to be the type