config.guess manufacturer string?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Feb 20 10:29:48 UTC 2009


Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:55:27AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Except of very few rare exceptional cases you don't have to know it.
>> And when, you can always manually add --build to these package's specs.
> 
> There are plenty of packages that care, usually to pick up optimized
> assembly for various CPUs, or whether it is possible to use atomic
> instructions or not.

Would you mind to list them?

Correct is, there are packages who are silly enough not to respect the 
CFLAGS the system integrator passes to it.

Ralf





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