At 15:08 +0100 1999-01-06, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> * dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture This is the gnu version of the target architecture - for example when you do gcc -v on i386 linux it reports: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/specs So for i386 the gnu build architecture is i486.gcc -v on i386 linux reports /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-gnu/2.7.2.3/specs, I'm afraid...
The thing is that gcc only uses i486-linux because it's configured with $(ARCH)-linux, which is ARCH=$(shell dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture), dpkg uses i486 because its hacked autoconf macros force anything > i486 to still be seen as i486.
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