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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: what should an arch command return on an indigo?
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <grl.721642136@groucho> <1992Nov16.200138.24748@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.215158.12838@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:25:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.215158.12838@news.arc.nasa.gov>, lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
- > ...
- >
- > I have been using /bin/cpp to obtain the architecture by deduction.
- > Unfortunately, this is being broken of late by two things:
- >
- > 1) C compiler unbundling, and systems with no cc, or cpp
- >
- > 2) /bin/cpp is no longer operative on some systems, even when the compiler is
- > there, and cpp appears to be there. Unfortunately, there is no guaranteed
- > replacement.
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- You're not supposed to notice the contents of /usr/sysgen/root, which is
- required for the system to auto-configure itself. At least up through
- IRIX 4.*.
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- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-