config.guess manufacturer string?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.
Forgot to add something: This would be --host, not --build

If these packages are using --build to pick up optimizations, they would 
be optimizing for the buildsystem, not for the host.

> 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.
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> Ralf
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