Message-ID: <19980202131929.00098@beeblebrox> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:19:29 +0100 From: Molnar Laszlo To: Wojciech Galazka Cc: DJGPP Workers List Subject: Re: off topic: ix86-pc-msdosdjgpp References: <34D1D530 DOT 5784 AT chem DOT uw DOT edu DOT pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <34D1D530.5784@chem.uw.edu.pl>; from Wojciech Galazka on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:27:12PM +0100 Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:27:12PM +0100, Wojciech Galazka wrote: > > I saw this `ix86-pc-msdosdjgpp' in some recent posts. My only > > question is the 'msdos' part. Why must this name contain 'ms'? > > DJGPP works on other DOSes doesn't it? > > it doesn't have to include the 'ms' ix86-pc-dos will do > > a similar question from me. And now perl uses 'dos-djgpp' ;-) > you have to include processor type too. Perl's configure script is not GNU. It doesn't care about processor type. Laszlo