Re: What's in a name?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:09:42PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
>> >At 02:58 PM 11/30/2000, David A. Cobb wrote:
>> >>That's nice, I thought, because I need to key a load of directory
>> >>references depending on whether I'm in Win32 or Cygwin.  HOWEVER,
>> >>several installations seem to think it should be "-Cygwin32" when they
>> >>build their "/usr/local/???/i686-pc-?????????" subtrees.
>> >
>> >These are old.  Cygwin used to be referred to as Cygwin32.
>
>So, Question#1 would be: where does bash get the initial value?

Don't know.  I assume from whatever is used when it is configured.

>> >>And 'config.guess', at least the one I looked at calls 'uname' which
>> >>says I have an
>> >>"i586" and cannot make any sense out of my configuration at all.
>> >
>> >
>> >Interesting.  Mine says:
>> >
>> > >uname -m
>> >i686
>> >
>> >Are you sure you're up-to-date in your Cygwin environment?
>>
>> Cygwin should accurately depict the machine type.  If you're using
>> a '586' it should report that fact.
>>
>> It depends on Windows for this information.  uname.cc has the gory
>> details.
>
>So, what's an "Intel Celeron @ 466 MHz" which is all I see on the box.

We rely on whatever Windows says it is.  There is no magic code here.
Windows returns a processor type via the GetSystemInfo function and that
is what we use.

>And, while we're on the subject, I see that bash also thinks I logged
>on as "Administrator" which leads to another mailgram.  [later] I know,
>I know, grap the sources of `uname' and look :-)

While we're on the subject, you might want to look up the word
"Administrator" in the mailing list archives and save everyone some
email.

cgf

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