Ben Elliston bje@wasabisystems.com
Thu Dec 4 23:38:00 GMT 2003

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"Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> I still haven't seen even a weak argument for making any change at
> all.  So the canonical system names are inconsistent with Sun's
> marketing names; why does anyone even care?

Some people care because the output of config.guess does not match the
well-known name by which that operating system and version are known.
This is, admittedly, potentially confusing to newbies who think they
are using a Solaris 7 system and config.guess tells them they are
using Solaris 2.7.

Ben

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