Hi!

When autoconf tries to determine the canonical system name, it returns
a string like

  wiz@hiro:~> sh /usr/pkg/share/autoconf/config.guess
  i386-unknown-netbsd1.4.2.

while the packaging system currently uses, when GNU_CONFIGURE is set,
(see bsd.prefs.mk):
  MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM?=  ${LOWER_ARCH}-${LOWER_VENDOR}-${LOWER_OPSYS}
which (for me) expands to
  i386--netbsd

What do you think about adding the version number of the OS at the end
of MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM, like autoconf does? Why is it a bad idea? :-)

Cheers,
 Thomas

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