From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP & Windows 2000 weelky status report for 23-Sep-2001
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:42:00 +0200
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> But that is what config.guess/config.sub return. I was 
> referring to uname.

Is there any particular reason why Perl's configure needs
to roll its own detection?  I suspect config.guess and
config.sub recognize more platforms than Perl currently
does.
That aside, what's preventing perl from using the first
part of uname's output (I think's that's always 'MS-DOS')?
Or, it could do some DJGPP-specific tests (for example,
it could test for $DJGPP and $DJDIR/djgpp.env exisiting
and being the same file).