kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname

Robert Millan rmh at debian.org
Fri Feb 11 04:31:56 PST 2005


On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:18:25AM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> >  
> >  With this change, the config.guess triplet becomes i686-unknown-freebsd5.3
> >  (or whatever suitable).  Some programs detect this and use it for optimisation.
> 
> The proper way to specify optimizations in FreeBSD is with relevant
> entries in /etc/make.conf.

But this only affects the port system when passing --host and --build to
configure scripts, right?

I'm more concerned about programs that run config.guess on their own.

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