On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:09:13 -0400 (EDT) 
 der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

 > Ouch.  That scales pretty badly, it seems to me:
 > 
 > ${MACHINE_ARCH:C/^mips.*/mips:C/^sparc.*/sparc/:C/^680.0/m68k/:C/^ppc.*/ppc/:C/^new-arch.*/new-arch/....}
 > 
 > Or am I misunderstanding something?

You're misunderstanding something.  This is only done in the MIPS case to
handle generic MIPS sources with a machine arch of "mipsel" or "mipseb".

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