[lsb-discuss] archLSB naming

Matt Taggart taggart at carmen.fc.hp.com
Mon Nov 17 17:51:20 PST 2003


Hi lsb-discuss,

I have a question about archLSB naming. Why do we call it "amd64" when
`uname -m` and config.guess return "x86_64"?

Most of the architectures are consistant, except for ia32 since it
returns things like "i686". Maybe it should be named "x86"?

Sorry if this was discussed and I missed it.

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Matt Taggart        Linux and Open Source Lab
taggart at fc.hp.com   Hewlett-Packard




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