re: Autoconf build targets

[matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>]

   1) Modify the kernel build so uname -v includes "Debian" - this is a
   pretty trivial change. It does present problems if people build kernels on
   their own - one option would be to make sure that the kernel build system
   ensures that this is set.

i think this will only cause things to be more broken when people
aren't running the right kernel.. it also just seems Wrong to me.
   
   2) config.guess currently produces i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5. Under Linux,
   this is i386-pc-linux-gnu. Adding i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5-gnu (or
   possibly even just i386-unknown-netbsd-gnu), determined by the different
   uname output, would allow for Debian-specific alterations to be made which
   could be included upstream without breaking anything else.

i like i386-unknown-netbsd-gnu or i386-unknown-netbsd-debian.  i'd
ask the config.guess maintainers what _they_ feel about this..
   
   (Oh, and kudos to the NetBSD guys for producing a kernel which seems happy
   to build with gcc 3.04 :) )

we try :)


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