Tim Rowledge wrote:


> -1001 - basic OS type: "unix", "win32", "mac",...
> -1002 - specific OS type: "solaris2.5" on unix, "win95" on win32,...
> -1003 - processor architecture: "68k", "x86", "PowerPC",...
> 
> So to meet this requirement the Mac ought to be returning Mac OS 8.60
> Acorn return RiscOS 4.15 (or whatever) and it looks like Windows returns
> '95'' or 'NT'. Unix returns something derived from a scary looking bit
> of sed in the makefile/autoconf code and on my RH 7.1 machine it
> actually gives 'linux-gnu' which doesn't seem to quite match that spec.

Well, it's as specific as the config.guess script allows. What would you 
prefer? Append a kernel version a la "uname -r"? Glibc version? Distro 
name?

-- Bert