Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stepan Kasal wrote: Suse patches automake's config.guess to return <arch>-suse-linux,
Really?This would be a serious bug in their automake, rendering tarballs having having been generated on SuSE largely worthless and rendering non-SuSE-OS generated tarballs largely worthless on Suse.
and based on random sampling of src.rpm's, dont seem to be using %configure that much at all, most of what I checked just use ./configure.I had been told (from suse employees), they had a policy to not use %configure for many years and label it "unsupported", because the machinery in rpm behind it was simply too broken.
I don't know if this policy still applies.
Then there's Debian, where the default configure invocation apparently defaults to --build=<arch>-linux.So "abusing" the manufacturer part for distro vendor name seems to be not an entirely uncommon thing.
Yes, it's common amongst many rpm based distros.The Debian thing you mention is equivalent to internally using <arch>-[pc|unknown]-linux
Ralf