config.guess manufacturer string?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:36:32PM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > In a nutshell: what, if anything, should we do about this?
> 
> I believe the right answer is:
> 
> > Just leave it up to config.guess upstream like it is now, case closed,
> 
> Random comments:
> 
> > 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.  
> 
> Agreed.

That's nice, except that "pc" or "unknown" are completely useless in the
triplets, while having redhat there provides very useful information.

	Jakub