config.guess manufacturer string?

[Panu Matilainen]

In a nutshell: what, if anything, should we do about this?

[pmatilai at localhost redhat-rpm-config]$ sh F-8/*/config.guess
x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
[pmatilai at localhost redhat-rpm-config]$ sh devel/*/config.guess
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

[pmatilai at localhost redhat-rpm-config]$ setarch i386 sh F-8/*/config.guess
i686-redhat-linux-gnu
[pmatilai at localhost redhat-rpm-config]$ setarch i386 sh 
devel/*/config.guess
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Up to some point around F9, Fedora (and before that RHL) carried patched 
versions of config.guess, typically deployed through %configure copying it 
over default config.guess from auto*foo, which would emit "redhat" as the 
manufacturer string.

My reading of http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_17.html is 
that the manufacturer part of the configuration name is the manufacturer 
of the CPU, not "OS vendor" so the former "redhat" was always incorrect. 
I don't know the history behind the decision to stomp "redhat" in there to 
begin with nor why it was then dropped later on. But having gotten used to 
it, people occasionally think the "unknown" (or "pc" for that matter) is a 
bug.

Thoughts? Just leave it up to config.guess upstream like it is now, case 
closed, or are there some actual reasons other why it should be something 
else?

 	- Panu -