Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 08:23:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:

> FYI I remember that Laurynas committed a bunch of patches a while ago to
> do CPU detection. 'uname' uses this to return i386, etc. for the
> processor.

That's true, but those changes are not in stock v2.03 libc.

> Looking at a config.guess I got recently from GNU CVS, I see
> that it matches on 'i?86' and '*DOS' or 'pc' (ignoring OS). It may be that
> shellutils 2.0 port has a uname with this support - I forget now and I
> don't use 2.0.

You cannot use Sh-utils 2.0 (unless you build it yourself) because 
there's no port of that version of Sh-utils.  It's in the works, but not 
yet released.