Re: automatic system info tool?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Someone at the conference mentioned a tool that would portably and
>>reliably report system info such as architecture.
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>What's wrong with config.guess?
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That will probably be OK for architecture.

We also classify buildfarm machines by <os, os_version, compiler, 
compiler_version> and config.guess doesn't give us that, unfortunately.

However, I will look at canonicalising the architecture to the 
config.guess values reported.

cheers

andrew